-51 contemporary articles are new to this edition, with 14 classic pieces retained from prior editions.
From gender issues in Desperate Housewives, to race in Ugly Betty, gender biases in video games, and portrayals of the American family in Extreme Makeover, to analyzes of new genres like fandom and social media - no other book is so successful in engaging students in critical me…
Gender, race, and class in media: a critical reader
With a new section on the Internet and the violence debate this third edition offers an integrated approach to media studies and explores the impact of the various media on gender, race and class in modern societies.
Introduction: mediated buffoons as political stakeholders : welcome to the white working-class -- Becoming "white trash": the formation and historical mediated representations of the white working-class -- Digging in the "trash": contemporary mediated representations of white wo…
Talking White Trashdocuments the complex and interwoven relationship between mediated representations and lived experiences of white working-class people--a task inspired by the author's experiences growing up in a white working-class family and neighborhood and how she came to …
Talking White Trashdocuments the complex and interwoven relationship between mediated representations and lived experiences of white working-class people--a task inspired by the author's experiences growing up in a white working-class family and neighborhood and how she came to …
Mediated shame of class and poverty across Europe
1. Chapter 1: Perspectives on Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty in European Contexts; Irena Reifova and Martin Hajek -- 2. Chapter 2: Benefits Scroungers and Stigma: Exploring the Abject-Grotesque in British Poverty Porn Programming; Louise Cope -- 3. Chapter 3: Neural Attunem…
The key concepts of the book are media, class, poverty, and shaming. The contributors to this book examine how certain social relations and their cultural meanings in the media, namely class and poverty, are transformed into factual or moral attributes of people and situations. …
Gender, Race, and Class in Media: a Critical Reader
Gender, race, and class in media: a critical reader
This book examines the mass media as economic and cultural institutions that shape our social identities, especially in regard to gender, race, and class. The introductory section outlines the book's integrated approach to media studies, which incorporates three distinct but rel…
