The gender and media reader

Kearney, Mary Celeste, 1962- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780415993463 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0415993458 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780415993456 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0415993466 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
ix, 714 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Mary Celeste Kearny -- Part I : Foundations : Studying gender and media. Feminist perspectives on the media / Liesbet van Zoonen ; The symbolic annihilation of women by the mass media / Gaye Tuchman ; Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey ; Defining women : the case of Cagney and Lacey / Julie D'Acci ; Gender and the culture of empire : toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema / Ella Shohat ; Beyond racism and misogyny : black feminism and 2 Live Crew / Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ; Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler ; Postfeminist media culture : elements of a sensibility / Rosalind Gill -- Part II : Production : labor, creativity, marketing, and technology. Women and men in film : gender inequality among writers in a culture industry / Denise D. Bielby and William T. Bielby ; Women's film production : going mainstream / Michelle Citron ; Gendering the commodity audience : critical media research, feminism, and political economy / Eileen R.Meehan ; Hiding homoeroticism in plain view : the Fight club DVD as digital closet / Robert Allen Brookey and Robert Westerfelhaus ; Fractured fairy tales and fragmented markets : Disney's Weddings of a lifetime and the cultural Politics of media conglomeration / Elana Levine ; Gender and the commodification of community : women.com and gURL.com / Leslie Regan Shade ; "I'll resist with every inch and every breath" : girls and zine making as a form of resistance / Kristen Schilt ; Looking to get paid : how some black youth put culture to work / Robin D. G. Kelley ; Women and the electric guitar / Mavis Bayton --