Media, Gender and Identity: An IntroductionRoutledge, 18 Μαρ 2008 - 336 σελίδες Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities? The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence on gender and sexuality. David Gauntlett discusses movies such as Knocked Up and Spiderman 3, men’s and women’s magazines, TV shows, self-help books, YouTube videos, and more, to show how the media play a role in the shaping of individual self-identities. The book includes:
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... Culture ( 2003 ) ' Brings the theory of popular culture to the widest possible audience ... Delightful and provocative . ' Charlie Peverett of HERO ( 2002 ) Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men . What impact ...
... popular culture and advertising. In the most obvious example, people in Europe and the USA typically spend three or four hours per day watching TV. That's a lot of information going into people's heads – even if they don't see it as ...
... lives . Researchers have tried to do. appearance , and that of others - but that's improbable . So it is imperative that , as students of contemporary culture , we try to investigate the ways in which everyday popular media.
... mass media and popular culture come in , because they offer important tools to help men - and women - adjust to contemporary life . Many of the academic books on ' masculinity ' are disappointing , as they dwell on archetypes from the ...
... known feminist surprised readers by arguing that contemporary culture damages men just as much as women , albeit in different ways . ( This , of course , is not actually inconsistent with the basic idea of feminism , which originally ...