ISBN:
9780415527699
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (689 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Routledge Companion to Media & Gender
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender offers a comprehensive examination of media and gender studies, charting its histories, investigating ongoing controversies, and assessing future trends.The 59 chapters in this volume, written by leading researchers from around the world, provide scholars and students with an engaging and authoritative survey of current thinking in media and gender research.The Companion includes the following features:With each chapter addressing a distinct, concrete set of issues, the volume includes research from around the world to engage readers in a broad array
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction: re-imagining media and gender; PART I Her/histories; 1 Media and the representation of gender; 2 Mass media representation of gendered violence; 3 Lone wolves: masculinity, cinema, and the man alone; 4 To communicate is human; to chat is female: the feminization of US media work; 5 Rediscovering twentieth-century feminist audience research; 6 Historically mapping contemporary intersectional feminist media studies; 7 Sexualities/queer identities
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Gender, media, and trans/national spacesPART II Media industries, labor, and policy; 9 Women and media control: feminist interrogations at the macro-level; 10 Risk, innovation, and gender in media conglomerates; 11 Putting gender in the mix: employment, participation, and role expectations in the music industries; 12 Gender inequality in culture industries; 13 Shifting boundaries: gender, labor, and new information and communication technology; 14 Gendering the commodity audience in social media
Description / Table of Contents:
15 Youthful white male industry seeks "fun"-loving middle-aged women for video games-no strings attached16 Boys are … girls are … : how children's media and merchandizing construct gender; 17 Girls' and boys' experiences of online risk and safety; 18 Holy grail or poisoned chalice? Three generations of men's magazines; 19 Making public policy in the digital age: the sex industry as a political actor; 20 Gender and digital policy: from global information infrastructure to internet governance; 21 Gender and media activism: alternative feminist media in Europe
Description / Table of Contents:
22 Between legitimacy and political efficacy: feminist counter-publics and the internet in ChinaPART III Images and representations across texts and genres; 23 Buying and selling sex: sexualization, commerce, and gender; 24 Class, gender, and the docusoap: The Only Way Is Essex; 25 Society's emerging femininities: neoliberal, postfeminist, and hybrid identities on television in South Africa; 26 A nice bit of skirt and the talking head: sex, politics, and news; 27 Transgender, transmedia, transnationality: Chaz Bono in documentary and Dancing with the Stars
Description / Table of Contents:
28 Celebrity, gossip, privacy, and scandal29 "Shameless mums" and universal pedophiles: sexualization and commodification of children; 30 Glances, dances, romances: an overview of gendered sexual narratives in teen drama series; 31 Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, "successful aging," and the new visibility of older female stars; 32 Perfect bodies, imperfect messages: media coverage of cosmetic surgery and ideal beauty; 33 Globalization, beauty regimes, and mediascapes in the New India; 34 Narrative pleasure in Homeland: the competing femininities of "rogue agents" and "terror wives"
Description / Table of Contents:
35 Above the fold and beyond the veil: Islamophobia in Western media
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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