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Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text-Reader [Paperback]

Gail Dines (Editor), Jean M. (McMahon) Humez (Editor)
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076192261X 978-0761922612 August 15, 2002 2nd

Incisive analyses of mass media – including such forms as talk shows, MTV, the Internet, soap operas, television sitcoms, dramatic series, pornography, and advertising-enable this provocative new edition of Gender, Race and Class in Media to engage students in critical mass media scholarship. Issues of power related to gender, race, and class are integrated into a wide range of articles examining the economic and cultural implications of mass media as institutions, including the political economy of media production, textual analysis, and media consumption.



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"The framework used for thinking about the mass media industry is excellent. And . . . the presentation of the material reflects the complexity of the mass media industry in a way that should be quite accessible to students, both conceptually and in terms of specific examples." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Gail Dines is 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 well 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 Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she 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 through her interest in media text analysis came to collaborate with Gail Dines on this book. 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.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 792 pages
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 2nd edition (August 15, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 076192261X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0761922612
  • Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 6.8 x 1.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,612 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Lynn Schofield Clark is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Denver and is author of several books and articles about how communication media are reshaping our collective lives. Her first book won the 2003 National Communication Association's award for Best Scholarly Book in Ethnography. She blogs and tweets about digital media as it relates to parenting and authority, journalism, teens and tweens, public life, and education.

 

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Media, stereotypes, white ideologies, marginalization., January 10, 1999
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An excellent reader explaining the media's role in perpetrating common stereotypes of historically marginalized people. Includes analysis of advertising, sexual representation, TV and music. An excellent textbook for cultural studies.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resourse for post-modern media theory., September 14, 1999
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As the media becomes one of the most dominant means by which we frame our social reality, it becomes crucial for each of us to understand how media can become a mean to someone's own end. An excellent treatment of hegemony and dominant/ prefered readings. This should be a required text in all communication/ social science programs. But it ain't bad readin' for anyone else who consumes media either, namely you!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars best text reader ever for my communication major, December 5, 1998
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broad and complete view point on the issues that face college critics in media fields. Most comprehensive text I have been required to buy with my major. Would highly recommend to other prof.s
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