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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... role models. Atthe University of Westminster Ihave enjoyedthe support of Annette Hill, Peter Goodwin, Colin Sparks, Sally Feldman, Jeanette Steemers, David Hendy, Edmund de Waal, Rachel Groom and many others. At Routledge, NatalieFoster ...
... role models' oftimes gone by mightbe rather laughable and embarrassing now. Eventhe idea of media 'audiences' has become more complexin recentyears.Since the firsteditionofthis book was published in 2002, we have seenthe launch ...
... role from thepast. Men liketheir identities to fit within 'masculinity', even ifwehave to revise that term as ... rolemodels tochoose from in magazines, movies andpop music–all of which will be discussed in the following chapters ...
... role models', to selfhelp booksand their moreexplicit adviceabout self fulfilment.Chapter 11, whichis allnew forthis editionof thebook, discusses ways of exploring identities in which participants areasked to engagein creative visual ...
... role models, providing qualitative information about how people relate to media texts. Email interviewsare very similar toany other kind of interview, except that the researcher is able tocontact people from different parts of the ...
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