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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... author of several books on media audiences and identities, including Moving Experiences (1995,2005)andCreative Explorations (2007). He produces Theory.org.uk, the awardwinning website on media, gender and identity. M e d i a , G e n d.
... identities 10.1 Selfhelp books 11.1 Examples of drawings of celebrities produced by teenagers 11.2–11.5 Participants building metaphorical modelsoftheir identities in the Lego identity study 11.6 The individual and I L L U S T R A T I ...
... evaluations, negotiations, emotions and reactions. We are therefore never going to beableto produce a simple flowchart showing howidentities are 'formed'; other, more subtle, approaches are needed. Chapter 11 discusses.
... producing entertainment productsin order tomake profit. Whilst this comesas no surprise to us today – we are happy to ... produced by the people. Instead,the culture consumed bythe massesisimposed from above–churned out by the culture ...
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