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  title info:
    title: Latinas in the city
    sub title: a discussion of how young Mexican women identify and engage with Sex and the City
  name:
    name part: Cantu, Elizabeth Angelica.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: La Pastina, Antonio C.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Globalization trends and treaties, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), have increased the access and flow of United States media and popular culture products in Mexico. Limited research has been done examining the exposure of Mexican audiences to U.S. media products and the possibility of mass media's impact on Mexican cultural identity. This qualitative study examines how twenty college-educated Mexican women identify and engage with the transnational popular culture text of Sex and the City (SATC). A multi-disciplinary theoretical approach, mainly from cultural studies and media studies, provides the backbone for my study of a foreign audience's identification and engagement with a U.S. popular culture text. Thematic categorization of my interview data showed that genre, gender, class and location all played a role in the media engagement process. SATC enabled these twenty women to examine their lived experiences in Mexican society and be exposed to alternative viewpoints. The women interviewed were active audience members that discussed their experiences as college-educated, career driven women associated with modernity but living in the traditional, patriarchal society of Mexico. The women interviewed preferred watching television from other countries, such as the U.S., because it resonated with their lived experiences more than the telenovelas, which are the most common form of television programming in Latin America. In terms of discussing the representation of women on SATC, women talked about the gender roles, myths and structural forces of Mexican society to engage in resistive pleasure and to talk about gender politics. For these Mexican women, discussing SATC allowed them to express concerns over the representation of women in telenovelas, the importance of having alternative viewpoints available to women, and the experiences that have allowed them to foster spaces for change based on SATC's content and characters. While factors, such…
  note: by Elizabeth Angelica Cantu.
  note: "Major Subject: Speech Communication"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-03-12 12:08:51).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master of Arts Texas A&M University 2007 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1612
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major Speech Communication
  subject:
    topic: popular culture
  subject:
    topic: reception studies
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1612
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 100428
    record change date: 20260303161700.3
    record identifier: in00002575532