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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... onmediaandgender have consisted of detailed criticism of particular representations of women (e.g. MacDonald, 1995; Tasker, 1998; Gatewardand Pomerance, 2002), or representations of men (e.g. Cohan and Hark, 1993; Lehman,
... particular academicreading ofa textis superior to that made by any otherperson.) InthisbookI will discussthe changing representations of genderin Chapters 3and 4, and elsewhere,but ratherthan describing worrying aspects of texts in ...
... particular. Of course, the question of media influences on gender and identities in nonWestern countries around the worldisvery important too (Thussu, 2006; MachinandVan Leeuwen,2006; Altman,2002; StaldandTufte, 2001),but is beyond the ...
... particular TVshow,film, or magazine, but ismore generally focused on thefactthat this 'rubbish' (1979: 121) takes up so muchtime in people'severyday consciousness – 'occupying [their] senses from thetime they leave the factory in the ...
... particular songs and stars might go together. Even after several years, the public do not seem tobe tiring of the manufacturemeapopstar format. In December 2006, for instance,thedebut singleby Leona Lewis,winner of thethird series of ...
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