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9780803951648: Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text-Reader
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ISBN 10: 0803951647 ISBN 13: 9780803951648
Editorial: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1994

Sinopsis

This text introduces students to contemporary media scholarship in an accessible way that builds upon students′ own media experiences and interests, analyzing popular genres such as soaps, talk shows, music, pornography, made-for-TV movies, advertising and romance novels.

The introduction delineates the major paradigms in media studies today from a critical/cultural perspective. It outlines the book′s integrated approach to media studies which incorporates three distinct but related areas of investigation: political economy of production, textual analysis and audience response/resistance. The introductions to the parts provide a framework for understanding and analyzing how gender, race and class are structural and experiential categories that inform the production, construction and consumption of media representations.

The readings by distinguished contributors are drawn from original essays and influential, previously published articles. They provide a framework for understanding and analyzing how gender, race and class are structural and experiential categories that inform the production, construction and consumption of media representations.

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Acerca de los autores

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.

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Editorial
SAGE Publications, Inc
Año de publicación
1994
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0803951647
ISBN 13 
9780803951648
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
672
Editor
Dines Gail, McMahon Humez Jean
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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9780803951631: Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text-Reader

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ISBN 10:  0803951639 ISBN 13:  9780803951631
Editorial: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1994
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