Media, Gender and Identity: An IntroductionPopular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities? The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence on gender and sexuality. David Gauntlett discusses movies such as Knocked Up and Spiderman 3, men’s and women’s magazines, TV shows, self-help books, YouTube videos, and more, to show how the media play a role in the shaping of individual self-identities. The book includes:
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... images and ideas have on people's identities? The newedition ofMedia, Genderand Identityis a highly readableintroduction totherelationship betweenmedia and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies ...
... images are byDavid Gauntlett, except: page 80, photograph of Silver Surfer advertising promotion ontheLondonEyeby Judith Duddle,reproducedby kind permission. page 92, 'The chart' from The L Word, reproduced under GNU FreeDocumentation ...
... images of women and men, and messages about men, women and sexuality today, itishighly unlikelythat these ideaswouldhave noimpact on our ownsense of identity. At the sametime,though, it's just as unlikelythatthe media has a directand ...
... own style and preferences. Images of'attractive people' abound. This may have absolutely no influenceonhow werate our own appearance, andthatof others –but that's improbable. So it is imperative that, as students of contemporary culture,
... image usefully adopts onemask after anotherto exposethefactthat there isno “essential” self and therefore no essentialfeminine but only cultural constructions' (1993:160). Madonna was seen to be playing with 'the givengendersignsystem ...
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