Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text-Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076192261X ISBN 13: 9780761922612

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Gender, Race and Class in Media examines the mass media as economic and cultural institutions that shape our social identities. Through analyses of popular mass media entertainment genres, such as talk shows, soap operas, television sitcoms, advertising and pornography, students are invited to engage in critical mass media scholarship. A comprehensive introductory section outlines the book′s integrated approach to media studies, which incorporates three distinct but related areas of investigation: the political economy of production, textual analysis and audience response. The readings include a dozen new original essays, edited for maximum accessibility. The book provides:

- A comprehensive, critical introduction to Media Studies

- An analysis of race that is integrated into all chapters

- Articles on Cultural Studies that are accessible to undergraduates

- An extensive bibliography and section on media resources

- Expanded coverage of "queer" representations in mass media

- A new section on the violence debates

- A new section on the Internet

Together with new section introductions, these provide a comprehensive critical introduction to mass media studies.

About this title

About the Authors

Gail Dines is a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston, where she is also chair of the American studies department. She has been researching and writing about the pornography industry for over twenty years. She has written numerous articles on pornography, media images of women, and representations of race in pop culture. Her latest book is PORNLAND: How Pornography has Hijacked our Sexuality. She is a cofounder of the activist group Stop Porn Culture!

Jean M. Humez is a professor emerita of women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she has taught courses in both women’s studies and American studies and chaired the women’s studies department. She designed and taught an undergraduate women and the media course early in her career, and came to collaborate with Gail Dines through her interest in media text analysis. She has also published books and articles on African American women’s spiritual and secular autobiographies, and on women and gender in Shaker religion. Her most recent book is Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076192261X
• ISBN 13: 9780761922612
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 792
• Editor: Dines Gail, McMahon Humez Jean