Gender, race, and class in media: a critical reader

Part I: A cultural studies approach to media : theory. Cultural studies, multiculturalism, and media culture / Douglas Kellner ; The meaning of memory : family, class, and ethnicity in early network television programs / George Lipsitz ; The economics of the media industry / David P. Croteau and William D. Hoynes ; Hegemony / James Lull ; The Internet's unholy marriage to capitalism / John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney ; Television and the cultivation of authoritarianism : a return visit from an unexpected friend / Michael Morgan and James Shanahan ; Women read the romance : the interaction of text and context / Janice Radway ; Star Trek rerun, reread, rewritten : fan writing as textual poaching / Henry Jenkins III ; Reconsidering resistance and incorporation / Richard Butsch Part II: Representations of gender, race, and class. The year we obsessed over identity / Wesley Morris ; The whites of their eyes : racist ideologies and the media / Stuart Hall ; Redskins : insult and brand / C. Richard King ; Pornographic eroticism and sexual grotesquerie in representations of African American sportswomen / James McKay and Helen Johnson ; Dissolving the other : Orientalism, consumption, and Katy Perry's insatiable Dark horse / Rosemary Pennington ; "Global motherhood" : the transnational intimacies of white femininity / Raka Shome ; Transgender transitions : sex/gender binaries in the digital age / Kay Siebler ; The "rich bitch" : class and gender on the Real housewives of New York City / Michael J. Lee and Leigh Moscowitz ; From Rush Limbaugh to Donald Trump : conservative talk radio and the defiant reassertion of white male authority / Jackson Katz

Part III: Reading media texts critically. Inventing the Cosmo girl : class identity and girl-style American dreams / Laurie Ouellette ; Political culture jamming : the dissident humor of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart / Jamie Warner ; Educating The Simpsons : teaching queer representations in contemporary visual media / Gilad Padva ; Resisting, reiterating, and dancing through : the swinging closet doors of Ellen DeGeneres's televised personalities / Candace Moore ; When in Rome : heterosexism, homophobia, and sports talk radio / David Nylund ; Playing "Redneck" : white masculinity and working-class performance on Duck Dynasty / Shannon E. M. O'Sullivan ; Black women and black men in hip hop music : misogyny, violence, and the negotiation of (white-owned) space / Guillermo Rebollo-Gil and Amanda Moras ; "[In]justice rolls down like water..." : challenging white supremacy in media constructions of crime and punishment / Bill Yousman Part IV: Advertising and consumer culture. Image-based culture : advertising and popular culture / Sut Jhally ; The new politics of consumption : why Americans want so much more than they need / Juliet Schor ; Pepsi's new ad is a total success / Ian Bogost ; Sex, lies, and advertising / Gloria Steinem ; Supersexualize me! Advertising and the "midriffs" / Rosalind Gill ; Branding "real" social change in Dove's campaign for real beauty / Dara Persis Murray ; Nothing less than perfect : female celebrity, ageing, and hyper-scrutiny in the gossip industry / Kirsty Fairclough ; How to "use your Olympian" : the paradox of athletic authenticity and commercialization in the contemporary Olympic Games / Momin Rahman and Sean Lockwood ; Mapping commercial intertextuality : HBO's True blood / Jonathan Hardy

Part V: Representing sexualities. Pornographic values : hierarchy and hubris / Robert Jensen ; "There is no such thing as it" : toward a critical understanding of the porn industry / Gail Dines ; The pornography of everyday life / Jane Caputi ; Deadly love : images of dating violence in the "Twilight Saga" / Victoria E. Collins and Dianne C. Carmody ; Resistant masculinities in alternative R&B? Understanding Frank Ocean and The Weeknd's representations of gender / Frederik Dhaenens and Sander De Ridder ; The limitations of the discourse of norms : gay visibility and degrees of transgression / Jay Clarkson ; Hetero Barbie? / Mary F. Rogers ; Fantasies of exposure : belly dancing, the veil, and the drag of history / Joanna Mansbridge Part VI: Growing up with contemporary media. The future of childhood in the global television market / Dafna Lemish ; Disney: 21st century leader in animating global inequality / Lee Artz ; La princesa plasties : hegemonic and oppositional representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie / Karen Goldman ; Growing up female in a celebrity-based pop culture / Gail Dines ; "Too many bad role models for us girls" : girls, female pop celebrities and "sexualization" / Sue Jackson and Tiina Vares ; Privates in the online public : sex(ting) and reputation on social media / Michael Salter ; Video games : machine dreams of domination / John Sanbonmatsu ; "You play like a girl" : cross-gender competition and the uneven playing field / Elena Bertozz

Part VII: Still watching television in the digital age. Why television sitcoms kept re-creating male working-class buffoons for decades / Richard Butsch ; Marketing "reality" to the world : Survivor, post-Fordism, and reality television / Chris Jordan ; A shot at half-exposure : Asian Americans in reality TV shows / Grace Wang ; The racial logic of Grey's anatomy : Shonda Rhimes and her "post-civil rights, post-feminist" series / Kristen J. Warner ; Performing class : Gilmore girls and a classless neoliberal "middle-class" / Daniela Mastrocola ; Don't drop the soap vs. the soap opera : the representation of male and female prisoners on U.S. television / Hannah Mueller ; Donald Trump and the politics of spectacle / Douglas Kellner ; Is this TVIV? On Netflix, TVIII and binge-watching / Mareike Jenner

Part VIII: Social media, virtual community, and fandom. Pop cosmopolitanism : mapping cultural flows in an age of convergence / Henry Jenkins III ; The political economy of privacy on Facebook / Christian Fuchs ; To see and be seen : celebrity practice on Twitter / Alice Marwick and danah boyd ; It's about ethics in games journalism? Gamergaters and geek masculinity / Andrea Braithwaite ; "Don't hate the player, hate the game" : the racialization of labor in World of Warcraft / Lisa Nakamura ; GimpGirl grows up : women with disabilities rethinking, redefining, and reclaiming community / Jennifer Cole, Jason Nolan, Yukari Seko, Katherine Mancuso, and Alejandra Ospina ; How it feels to be viral me : affective labor, and Asian American YouTube performance / Christine Bacareza Balance ; The Latino cyber-moral panic process in the United States / Nadia Yamel Ftores-Yeffal, Guadalupe Vidales, and April Plemons ; #Ferguson : digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States / Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa

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