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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... Race: Television and the Struggle for 'Blackness' by Herman Gray (2004), Race/Gender/Media: Considering DiversityAcross Audience,Content,and Producers byRebeccaAnn Lind (2003), Say It Loud!: AfricanAmerican Audiences, Media, and Identity.
An Introduction David Gauntlett. Lind (2003), Say It Loud!: AfricanAmerican Audiences, Media, and Identity edited by Robin Means Coleman (2002), Representing Black Britain:Black andAsian Imageson Television bySarita Malik (2002), and ...
... audience') – quotesfrom these sitesare useful for fleshingout anidea orillustrating a point, andthey do representthe spontaneouslyoffered views ofpeoplewhoare actually interested in the media product in question. F. u. nny. way. oft. a. lki.
... audiences relate to them. Although these textbased approaches may reveal 'hidden' (i.e. notsoobvious) aspectsof media messages,theyoften do nothelp usto understand why such texts are appealingor popular, or howthey areconsumed byactual ...
... audience, or does theaudience ultimately have more power than the media? It is, perhaps, not very sensible to consider the matter in such extreme, polarised terms, but we shall put that thought to one sidetemporarily ...
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