ISBN:
0805856153
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9780805856156
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 408 p)
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
LEA's Communication Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Critical Thinking About Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media : Media Literacy Applications
DDC:
306.701
Keywords:
Man-woman relationships
;
Sex in mass media
;
Media literacy
;
Love in mass media
;
Critical thinking
Abstract:
Developed for use in courses on mass media and society, media studies, and media literacy, this book offers diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches on the representation of romantic relationships across the media spectrum, including the myths, stereotypes, and prescriptions manifested throughout the press
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Alternate Contents: Chapters By Mass Medium; Preface; Chapter 1 "Dis-illusioning" as Discovery: The Research Basis and Media Literacy Applications of Dr. FUN's Mass Media Love Quiz© and Dr. Galician's Prescriptions©; I Attraction; Chapter 2 Cyberdating Success Stories and the Mythic Narrative of Living "Happily-Ever-After with the One"; Chapter 3 Brewing Romance: The Romantic Fantasy Theme of the Taster's Choice "Couple" Advertising Campaign; Chapter 4 Promoting Easy Sex Without Genuine Intimacy: Maxim and Cosmopolitan Cover Lines and Cover Images
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5 What's Love Got to Do with It? Mode Readers Expose and Perpetuate Mediated Myths of RomanceII Hegemony; Chapter 6 Write Romance: Zora Neale Hurston's Love Prescription in Their Eyes Were Watching God; Chapter 7 Interracial Love on Television: What's Taboo Still and What's Not; Chapter 8 Jennifer Lopez and a Hollywood Latina Romance Film: Mythic Motifs in Maid in Manhattan; Chapter 9 Myths of Sex, Love, and Romance of Older Women in Golden Girls; Chapter 10 "Love Will Steer the Stars" and Other Improbable Feats: Media Myths in Popular Love Songs
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 11 Power, Romance, and the "Lone Male Hero": Deciphering the Double Standard in The Da Vinci CodeChapter 12 Gender Equity Stereotypes or Prescriptions? Subtexts of the Stairway Scenes in the Romantic Films of Helen Hunt; III Conflict; Chapter 13 Taming Brian: Sex, Love, and Romance in Queer as Folk; Chapter 14 Myths of Romantic Conflict in the Television Situation Comedy; Chapter 15 'Til Politics Do Us Part: The Political Romance in Hollywood Cinema
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 16 "Five Total Strangers, with Nothing in Common": Using Galician's Seven-Step Dis-illusioning Directions to Think Critically about The Breakfast ClubChapter 17 Cue the Lights and Music: How Cinematic Devices Contribute to the Perpetuation of Romantic Myths in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge; Chapter 18 Carpe Diem: Relational Scripts and "Seizing the Day" in the Hollywood Romantic Comedy; Chapter 19 Gangster of Love? Tony Soprano's Assault on Romantic Myths; Chapter 20 Remakes to Remember: Romantic Myths in Remade Films and Their Original Counterparts; IV Completion
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 21 "Must Marry TV": The Role of the Heterosexual Imaginary in The BachelorChapter 22 "Real" Love Myths and Magnified Media Effects of The Bachelorette; Chapter 23 The "Reality" of Reality Television Wedding Programs; Chapter 24 Unrealistic Portrayals of Sex, Love, and Romance in Popular Wedding Films; Chapter 25 The Agony or the Ecstasy? Perceptions of Valentine's Day; Appendix: Resource Guide to Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media: Some Additional Publications, Films, Television Shows, Songs, and Web Sites; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
A companion to Mary-Lou Galician's Sex, love & romance in the mass media. 2004
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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