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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... YouTube Internet Movie Database 18, 76, 77 irony in men's magazines 164–66, 176–82,187,189 Jackie magazine 190–1, 219 Jackson, Michael 258 Jackson, Peter 175–85 Jackson, Stevi 198, 217 James Bond 42–3, 53, 79 Jameson, Fredric 269 Jane ...
... YouTube visual research methods 228, 254–77 Vogler, Christopher 118, 119 Vogue magazine 193, 201, 209, 211 Walter, Natasha 86, 87, 242 Ways ofSeeing 212 Weaver, C. Kay 36 Web 2.0 2 Weightwatchers Magazine 193 West Wing, The 65 What ...
... YouTube 1–2, 72–3, 205, 256 Ziglar, Zig 242 Zoo magazine 169–74, 182 World Wide Web 1–2, 17–18, 21, 46, 72–3, 169; see also MySpace; YouTube INDEX 317.
Contents
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 SOME BACKGROUND DEBATES | 22 |
CHAPTER 3 REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER IN THE PAST | 46 |
CHAPTER 4 REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER TODAY | 62 |
CHAPTER 5 GIDDENS MODERNITY AND SELFIDENTITY | 99 |
Discourses and lifestyles | 125 |
CHAPTER 7 QUEER THEORY AND FLUID IDENTITIES | 145 |
CHAPTER 8 MENS MAGAZINES AND MODERN MASCULINITIES | 164 |
CHAPTER 9 WOMENS MAGAZINES AND FEMALE IDENTITIES | 190 |
Role models and selfhelp discourses | 223 |
CHAPTER 11 EXPLORING IDENTITY STORIES | 254 |
CHAPTER 12 CONCLUSIONS | 278 |
NOTES | 290 |
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