Gender, race, and class in media : a critical reader / editors, Gail Dines, Jean M. Humez.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dines, Gail
Humez, Jean McMahon, 1944-
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [2011], ©2011.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xv, 671 pages ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A Cultural Studies Approach to Media: Theory. Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism and Media Culture
  • The State of Media Ownership and Media Markets: Competition or Concentration and Why Should We Care?
  • The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs
  • Hegemony
  • Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: An American Fairy Tale
  • Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context
  • Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing As Textual Poaching
  • Representations of Gender, Race and Class. Hetero Barbie?-- Sex and the City: Carrie Bradshaw's Queer Postfeminism
  • The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist ideologies and the media
  • Pornographic eroticism and sexual grotesquerie in representations of African-American Sportswomen
  • What Does Race Have to Do With Ugly Betty? An Analysis of Privilege and Postracial (?) Representation on a Television Sitcom
  • Ralph, Fred, Archie, Homer and the King of Queens: Why Television Keeps Re-creating the Male Working-class Buffoon
  • Reading Media Texts Critically. Television's "New" Feminism: Prime-time Representations of Women and Victimization
  • Mother of the Year: Kathy Hilton, Lynne Spears, Dina Lohan and Bad Celebrity Motherhood
  • More than Baby Mamas: Black Mothers and Hip-Hop Feminism
  • Political Culture Jamming: The Dissident Humor of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  • Educating The Simpsons: Teaching Queer Representations in Contemporary Visual Media
  • 'Sexy Like a Girl and Horny Like a Boy': Contemporary Gay "Western" Narratives about Gay Asian Men
  • When in Rome: Heterosexism, Homophobia, and Sports Talk Radio
  • Disability, Gender and Difference on The Sopranos
  • Advertising and Consumer Culture. Image-Based Culture: Advertising and popular culture
  • The New Politics of Consumption: Why Americans Want So Much More Than They Need
  • Reaching African American Consumers: African American shopping behavior
  • Inventing the Cosmo Girl: Class Identity and Girl-style American dreams
  • Sex, Lies and Advertising
  • Unraveling the Knot: Political Economy and Cultural Hegemony in Wedding Media
  • Supersexualize Me! and the "Midriffs"
  • Advertising and the Construction of White Masculinity: from BMWs to Bud light
  • Representing Sexualities. White Man's Burden: Gonzo Pornography and the Construction of Black Masculinity
  • No Money Shot? Commerce, Pornography and New Sex Taste Cultures
  • "That's So Fun": Selling Pornography for Men to Women in The Girls Next Door
  • One Night in Paris (Hilton): Wealth, Celebrity and the Politics of Humiliation
  • The Pornography of Everyday Life
  • There Are Bitches and Hoes
  • Three Faces of Eva: Perpetuation of the Hot-Latina Stereotype in Desperate Housewives
  • The Limitations of the Discourse of Norms: Gay Visibility and Degrees of Transgression
  • "This is the Way We Live. . .and Love!": Feeding on and Still Hungering for Lesbian Representation in The L Word
  • Growing up with Contemporary Media. The Future of Childhood in the Global Television Market
  • From Tony the Tiger to Slime Time Live: The Content of Commercial Images children's advertising
  • La Princesa Plastica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie
  • Monarchs, Monsters and Multiculturalism: Disney's Menu for Global Hierarchy
  • Constructing the "New Ethnicities": Media, Sexuality and Diaspora Identity in the Lives of South Asian Immigrant Girls
  • HIV On TV: Conversations with Young Gay Men
  • Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life
  • Born to Be Wired
  • Video Games and Machine Dreams of Domination
  • Strategic Simulations and our Past: Bias of Computer Games in Presentation of History
  • You Play Like a Girl: Cross-Gender Competition and the Uneven Playing Field
  • Is TV for Real? Marketing "Reality" to the World: Survivor, Post-Fordism and Reality Television
  • The Political Economy of Amateurism
  • Critiquing Reality-Based Televisual Black Fatherhood: A Critical Analysis of Run's House and Snoop Dogg's Father Hood
  • Disciplining the Housewife in Desperate Housewives and Domestic Reality Television
  • "Take Responsibility for Yourself": Judge Judy and the Neoliberal Citizen
  • "The Anxieties of the Enterprising Self and the Limits of Mind Cure in the Age of Oprah
  • Television and the Domestication of Cosmetic Surgery
  • "Tyra Banks Is Fat": Reading (Post-) Racism and (Post-) Feminism in the New Millennium
  • Resisting, Reiterating, and Dancing Through: The Swinging Closet Doors of Ellen DeGeneres's Televised Personalities
  • Interactivity, Virtual Community and Fandom. Pop Cosmopolitanism: Mapping Cultural Flows in an Age of Convergence
  • Reading the Romance of Fan Cultural Production: Music Videos of a Television Lesbian Couple
  • "Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game": The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft
  • Sex Lives in Second Life
  • From Smart Fan to Backyard Wrestler: Performance, Context and Aesthetic Violence
  • Accidental Activists: Fan Activism in the Soap Opera Community
  • Insiders-Outsiders: Dr. Laura and the Contest for Cultural Authority in LGBT Media Activism.