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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... representations of gender in media.' Anne E. Lincoln in Journal of Consumer Culture (2003) 'Brings thetheory of popular culture tothewidest possible audience ... Delightfuland provocative.' Charlie Peverett ofHERO (2002) Popular media ...
An Introduction David Gauntlett. The book includes: a comparison ofgender representations in the past and today, from James Bond to Ugly Betty; an introduction to key theorists such as Judith Butler, Anthony Giddensand Michel Foucault ...
... to more everyday gay andlesbian (and bisexual and transgendered) characters, tolerance should grow. Discussions of the representations ofsexual minorities in television andfilm appear in Chapter 4. O T H E R A X E S O.
... representations of 'race' and their implications. See, forexample, Representing 'Race': Racisms, Ethnicity and theMediabyJohn Downing and Charles Husband (2005), Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for 'Blackness' by Herman Gray ...
... Representation(1992) and Reel to Real: Race,Sex, and Class at the Movies (1996). O. U. T. LI. N. E. O. FT. H. I. SBO. O. K. In ... representations of gender in the media, both in the past understand how people form their sense of self and ...
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