ISBN:
9781350168787
,
9781350168770
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Giomi, Elisa Male and female violence in popular media
DDC:
303.6
Keywords:
Violence in mass media
;
Violence in men
;
Violence in women
;
Violence in popular culture
;
Gewalt
;
Frau
;
Mann
;
Film
;
Fernsehen
;
Medien
Abstract:
"Elisa Giomi and Sveva Magaraggia propose that men engage in violent conduct at a higher rate than women because they are socially and culturally 'programmed' to do so. Popular culture representations play a crucial role in this process: TV series, films, pop music and videos, advertising commercials and tabloids all tend to 'normalise' violence against women as an allegedly natural inclination of males. Violent women, on the other hand, are believed to transgress both criminal and 'natural' laws, according to which they are supposed to give life, not death. By examining popular culture's depiction of men and women in their opposite, yet complementary, roles of perpetrators and victims, the authors show unexplored interconnections, namely that gender 'does' violence and violence 'does' gender. Empirical evidence is presented drawing on the following case studies: - male violence in contemporary Italian pop music - female violence in crime TV series including The Killing (Denmark, 2007-2012), The Fall (UK, 2013-2016) and True Detective (USA, 2015) - the use and abuse of gendered violence in Italian and international advertising images such as billboards and posters - male and female intimate partner violence in factual entertainment (Who the (bleep) Did I Marry? (Investigation Discovery, 2010-2015))."--
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I: Theoretical Frames. 1. Men's Violence Against Women: Data, Explanatory Models and Debates ; 2. Women's Violence Against Men: Data, Explanatory Models and Debates ; 3. Men's Violence Against Women and Women's Violence Against Men on the Media: Aesthetics, Rhetorics and Politics of Representation -- Part II: Empirical Research. 4. "You have to beg me not to kill you": Male Violence in Contemporary Italian Pop Music ; 5. Ladies' Violence is a Game, Gentlemen's Violence is Deadly: The (Ab)uses of Gendered Violence in Advertising ; 6. Tormented Men vs Manipulative Women: Male and Female Intimate Partner Violence in Factual Entertainment ; 7. "Man of any size lays hands on me, he's gonna bleed out in under a minute": The New Politics of Representation of Gendered Violence in International Crime TV Series -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5040/9781350168787
URL:
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