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Gender, race, and class in media : a critical reader /

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This provocative new edition examines the mass media as economic and cultural institutions that shape our social identities, particularly regarding gender, race and class. A comprehensive introductory section outlines the book's integrated approach to media studies, which incorporates three dis...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dines, Gail (Editor), Humez, Jean McMahon, 1944- (Editor), Yousman, Bill, 1962- (Editor), Bindig, Lori, 1980- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2018]
Edition:Fifth edition.
Subjects:
Mass media and culture > United States.
Mass media and sex > United States.
Mass media and race relations > United States.
Social classes in mass media.
Mass media > Social aspects > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-
Mass media and culture.
Mass media and race relations.
Mass media and sex.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Social conditions.
United States.
Media Studies.
Since 1980
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. A cultural studies approach to media: theory : Cultural studies, multiculturalism, and media culture / Douglas Kellner
  • The meaning of memory: family, class, and ethnicity in early network television programs / George Lipsitz
  • The economics of the media industry / David P. Croteau and William D. Hoynes
  • Hegemony / James Lull
  • The Internet's unholy marriage to capitalism / John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
  • Television and the cultivation of authoritarianism: a return visit from an unexpected friend / Michael Morgan and James Shanahan
  • Women read the romance: the interaction of text and context / Janice Radway
  • Star Trek rerun, reread, rewritten: fan writing as textual poaching / Henry Jenkins III
  • Reconsidering resistance and incorporation / Richard Butsch
  • Part II. Representations of gender, race, and class : The year we obsessed over identity / Wesley Morris
  • The whites of their eyes: racist ideologies and the media / Stuart Hall
  • Redskins: insult and brand / C. Richard King
  • Pornographic eroticism and sexual grotesquerie in representations of African American sportswomen / James McKay and Helen Johnson
  • Dissolving the other: Orientalism, consumption, and Katy Perry's insatiable Dark horse / Rosemary Pennington
  • "Global motherhood": the transnational intimacies of white femininity / Raka Shome
  • Transgender transitions: sex/gender binaries in the digital age / Kay Siebler
  • The "rich bitch": class and gender on the Real housewives of New York City / Michael J. Lee and Leigh Moscowitz
  • From Rush Limbaugh to Donald Trump: conservative talk radio and the defiant reassertion of white male authority / Jackson Katz
  • Part III. Reading media texts critically : Inventing the Cosmo girl: class identity and girl-style American dreams / Laurie Ouellette
  • Political culture jamming: the dissident humor of The Daily show with Jon Stewart / Jamie Warner
  • Educating The Simpsons: teaching queer representations in contemporary visual media / Gilad Padva
  • Resisting, reiterating, and dancing through: the swinging closet doors of Ellen DeGeneres's televised personalities / Candace Moore
  • When in Rome: heterosexism, homophobia, and sports talk radio / David Nylund
  • Playing "Redneck": white masculinity and working-class performance on Duck Dynasty / Shannon E. M. O'Sullivan
  • Black women and black men in hip hop music: misogyny, violence, and the negotiation of (white-owned) space / Guillermo Rebollo-Gil and Amanda Moras
  • "[In]justice rolls down like water...": challenging white supremacy in media constructions of crime and punishment / Bill Yousman
  • Part IV. Advertising and consumer culture : Image-based culture: advertising and popular culture / Sut Jhally
  • The new politics of consumption: why Americans want so much more than they need / Juliet Schor
  • Pepsi's new ad is a total success / Ian Bogost
  • Sex, lies, and advertising / Gloria Steinem
  • Supersexualize me! Advertising and the "midriffs" / Rosalind Gill
  • Branding "real" social change in Dove's campaign for real beauty / Dara Persis Murray
  • Nothing less than perfect: female celebrity, ageing, and hyper-scrutiny in the gossip industry / Kirsty Fairclough
  • How to "use your Olympian": the paradox of athletic authenticity and commercialization in the contemporary Olympic Games / Momin Rahman and Sean Lockwood
  • Mapping commercial intertextuality: HBO's True blood / Jonathan Hardy
  • Part V. Representing sexualities : Pornographic values: hierarchy and hubris / Robert Jensen
  • "There is no such thing as it": toward a critical understanding of the porn industry / Gail Dines
  • The pornography of everyday life / Jane Caputi
  • Deadly love: images of dating violence in the "Twilight saga" / Victoria E. Collins and Dianne C. Carmody
  • Resistant masculinities in alternative R&B? Understanding Frank Ocean and The Weeknd's representations of gender / Frederik Dhaenens and Sander De Ridder
  • The limitations of the discourse of norms: gay visibility and degrees of transgression / Jay Clarkson
  • Hetero Barbie? / Mary F. Rogers
  • Fantasies of exposure: belly dancing, the veil, and the drag of history / Joanna Mansbridge
  • Part VI. Growing up with contemporary media : The future of childhood in the global television market / Dafna Lemish
  • Disney: 21st century leader in animating global inequality / Lee Artz
  • La princesa plastica: hegemonic and oppositional representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie / Karen Goldman
  • Growing up female in a celebrity-based pop culture / Gail Dines
  • "Too many bad role models for us girls": girls, female pop celebrities and "sexualization" / Sue Jackson and Tiina Vares
  • Privates in the online public: sex(ting) and reputation on social media / Michael Salter
  • Video games: machine dreams of domination / John Sanbonmatsu
  • "You play like a girl": cross-gender competition and the uneven playing field / Elena Bertozz
  • Part VII. Still watching television in the digital age : Why television sitcoms kept re-creating male working-class buffoons for decades / Richard Butsch
  • Marketing "reality" to the world : Survivor, post-Fordism, and reality television / Chris Jordan
  • A shot at half-exposure: Asian Americans in reality TV shows / Grace Wang
  • The racial logic of Grey's anatomy : Shonda Rhimes and her "post-civil rights, post-feminist" series / Kristen J. Warner
  • Performing class: Gilmore girls and a classless neoliberal "middle-class" / Daniela Mastrocola
  • Don't drop the soap vs. the soap opera: the representation of male and female prisoners on U.S. television / Hannah Mueller
  • Donald Trump and the politics of spectacle / Douglas Kellner
  • Is this TVIV? On Netflix, TVIII and binge-watching / Mareike Jenner
  • Part VIII. Social media, virtual community, and fandom : Pop cosmopolitanism: mapping cultural flows in an age of convergence / Henry Jenkins III
  • The political economy of privacy on Facebook / Christian Fuchs
  • To see and be seen: celebrity practice on Twitter / Alice Marwick and danah boyd
  • It's about ethics in games journalism? Gamergaters and geek masculinity / Andrea Braithwaite
  • "Don't hate the player, hate the game": the racialization of labor in World of Warcraft / Lisa Nakamura
  • GimpGirl grows up: women with disabilities rethinking, redefining, and reclaiming community / Jennifer Cole, Jason Nolan, Yukari Seko, Katherine Mancuso, and Alejandra Ospina
  • How it feels to be viral me: affective labor, and Asian American YouTube performance / Christine Bacareza Balance
  • The Latino cyber-moral panic process in the United States / Nadia Yamel Flores-Yeffal, Guadalupe Vidales, and April Plemons
  • #Ferguson: digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States / Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa
  • Media literacy and media activism organizations
  • Glossary of terms.