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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From inside the book
... seems tobethe best word we haveforitat themoment. Perhaps we canaccept thatthe idea of'audience' itselfhasnow changed, and incorporates alevel of interactivity. This book, then, sets out to establishwhat messages the media ...
... seems obvious and inevitable, then, that we will be affected by these experiences somehow. Themedia shows us situationsand relationshipsfrom otherpeople's pointsof view–indeed,itis partof the eternalfascinationofdramathat wecansee ...
... seem tobe doing abitbetter: New Scientist (2005) reported that British fathers of underfives spend an average of two hours per day on childrelated activity; in the 1970s it wasjust 15 minutes. Meanwhile, there areobvious inequalities on ...
... seem anythe happier. Throughout North America, Europe and Australia,male suicides outnumber female bya factor of between 3 and4to1. [...] Men renowned for their abilityand inclination to bestoned, drunkor sexuallydaring, appear ...
... seems likely that as the media introduces the general audience to more everyday gay andlesbian (and bisexual and transgendered) characters, tolerance should grow. Discussions of the representations ofsexual minorities in television ...
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