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 plastica: 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 Flores-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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