Communicating Marginalized Masculinities: Identity Politics in TV, Film, and New Media: 11 (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138816175 ISBN 13: 9781138816176

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such as men and masculinity are socially defined and culturally instantiated, but also how the media has constructed notions of masculinity that have kept minority masculinities on the margins. Essays explore marginalized masculinities as communicated through film, television, and new media, visiting representations and marginalized identity politics while also discussing the dangers and pitfalls of a media pedagogy that has taught audiences to ignore, sidestep, and stereotype marginalized group realities. While dominant portrayals of masculine versus feminine characters pervade numerous television and film examples, this collection examines heterosexual and queer, military and civilian, as well as Black, Japanese, Indian, White, and Latino masculinities, offering a variance in masculinities and confronting male privilege as represented on screen, appealing to a range of disciplines and a wide scope of readers.

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About the Author

Ronald L. Jackson II is Professor and Head of African American Studies and Professor of Media & Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Jamie Moshin is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Marietta College, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138816175
• ISBN 13: 9781138816176
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Jackson II Ronald L., Moshin Jamie E.