Gender, race and class in media : a text-reader

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Gender, race and class in media : a text-reader

edited by Gail Dines & Jean M. Humez

Sage, c1995

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 576-620

Includes indexes

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This text introduces students to contemporary media scholarship in an accessible way that builds upon students' own media experiences and interests, analyzing popular genres such as soaps, talk shows, music, pornography, made-for-TV movies, advertising and romance novels. The introduction delineates the major paradigms in media studies today from a critical/cultural perspective. It outlines the book's integrated approach to media studies which incorporates three distinct but related areas of investigation: political economy of production, textual analysis and audience response/resistance. The introductions to the parts provide a framework for understanding and analyzing how gender, race and class are structural and experiential categories that inform the production, construction and consumption of media representations. The readings by distinguished contributors are drawn from original essays and influential, previously published articles. They provide a framework for understanding and analyzing how gender, race and class are structural and experiential categories that inform the production, construction and consumption of media representations.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: A CULTURAL STUDIES APPROACH TO GENDER, RACE AND CLASS IN THE MEDIA Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism and Media Culture - Douglas Kellner The Whites of Their Eyes - Stuart Hall Racist Ideologies and the Media White Negroes - Jan Nederveen Pieterse Madonna - bell hooks Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister? The Visibility of Race and Media History - Jane Rhodes The Silenced Majority - Barbara Ehrenreich Why the Average Working Person Has Disappeared From American Media and Culture The Meaning of Memory - George Lipsitz Family, Class and Ethnicity in Early Network Television The Color Purple - Jacqueline Bobo Black Women As Cultural Readers Out of the Mainstream - Larry Gross Sexual Minorities and the Mass Media PART TWO: ADVERTISING Image-Based Culture - Sut Jhally Advertising and Popular Culture Constructing and Addressing the Audience as Commodity - Robert Goldman The Black Experience in Advertising - Marsha Cassidy and Richard Katula An Interview with Thomas J Burrell Different Children, Different Dreams - Ellen Seiter Racial Representation in Advertising Separate But Not Equal - Richard W Pollay, Jung S Lee and David Carter-Whitney Racial Segmentation in Cigarette Advertising Sex, Lies and Advertising - Gloria Steinem Beauty and the Beast of Advertising - Jean Kilbourne Reading Images Critically - Douglas Kellner Toward a Postmodern Peadagogy Advertising and the Construction of Violent White Masculinity - Jackson Katz Commodity Lesbianism - Danae Clark Watching the Girls Go Buy - Mimi White Shop-at-Home Television PART THREE: MODES OF SEXUAL REPRESENTATION I - ROMANCE NOVELS AND SLASHER FILMS Her Body, Himself - Carol J Clover Gender in the Slasher Film Do Slasher Films Breed Real-Life Violence? - Alison Bass Mass Market Romance - Ann Barr Snitow Pornography for Women is Different Women Read the Romance - Janice A Radway The Interaction of Text and Context The Traditional Romance Formula - Marilyn M Lowery What's in a Pseudonym - Richard W Pollak Romance Slaves of Harlequin PART FOUR: MODES OF SEXUAL REPRESENTATION II - PORNOGRAPHY Pornography and Male Supremacy - Andrea Dworkin Misguided, Dangerous and Wrong - Gayle Rubin An Analysis of Anti-Pornography Politics `I Buy It for the Articles' - Gail Dines Playboy Magazine and the Sexualization of Consumerism Towards A Feminist Erotica - Kathy Myers Lawless Seeing - Annette Kuhn Pornography and Black Women's Bodies - Patricia Hill Collins Racism in Pornography - Alice Mayall and Diana E H Russell Pornography and the Limits of Experimental Research - Robert Jensen Confessions of a Feminist Porn Watcher - Scott MacDonald Surviving Commercial Sexual Exploitation - Evelina Giobbe PART FIVE: TV BY DAY Daze of Our Lives - Deborah D Rogers The Soap Opera as Feminine Text Race, Class and Sexuality in Soapland - Karen Lindsey Gendered Television - John Fiske Femininity The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas - Tania Modleski Women Watching Together - Minu Lee and Chong Heup Cho An Ethnographic Study of Korean Soap Opera Fans in the United States Home, Home on the Remote Does Fascination With TV Technology Create Male-Dominated Family Entertainment? Constellation of Voices - Wayne Munson How Talkshows Work Daytime Enquiries - Elayne Rapping His Name Was Not on the List - Gloria Abernathy-Lear The Soap Opera Updates of Ti-Rone as Resistance to Symbolic Annihilation PART SIX: TV AT NIGHT Ralph, Fred, Archie and Homer - Richard Butsch Why Television Keeps Recreating the White Male Working-Class Buffoon Is This What You Mean by Color TV? - Aniko Bodroghkozy Race, Gender and Contested Meanings in NBC's Julia Television's Realist Portrayal of African-American Women and the Case of L.A. Law - Jane Rhodes Television, Black Americans and the American Dream - Herman Gray Laughing Across the Color Barrier - Norma Miriam Schulman In Living Color The Movie of the Week - Elayne Rapping Defining Women - Julie D'Acci The Case of Cagney and Lacey Subversive Sitcoms - Janet Lee Roseanne as Inspiration for Feminist Resistance Confessions of a Sitcom Junkie - Sarah Schuyler PART SEVEN: MUSIC VIDEOS AND RAP MUSIC - CULTURAL CONFLICT AND CONTROL IN THE AGE OF THE IMAGE A Post-Modernist Moment - John Pettegrew 1980s Commercial Culture and the Founding of MTV Form and Female Authorship in Music Video - Lisa A Lewis The Effects of Race, Gender and Fandom on Audience Interpretations of Madonna's Music Videos - Jane D Brown and Laurie Schulze Reconstructions of Nationalist Thought in Black Music and Culture - Kristal Brent Zook It's My Thang and I'll Swing It the Way That I Feel! - Imani Perry Sexuality and Black Women Rappers `Fear of A Black Planet' - Tricia Rose Rap Music and Black Cultural Politics in the 1990s Imitation of Life - James Ledbetter AFTERWORD: MEDIA ACTIVISM The Question of Violence - George Gerbner The Power and the Peril

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