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  • The Pedagogy of Queer TV

    by Ava Laure Parsemain ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines queer characters in popular American television, demonstrating how entertainment can educate audiences about LGBT identities and social issues like homophobia and transphobia. Through case studies of musical soap operas (Glee and Empire), reality shows (RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Prancing Elites Project and I Am Cait) and “quality” dramas (Looking, Transparent and Sense8), it ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • In a Queer Time and Place

    Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

    by Judith Halberstam ...
    Series Book 3 - Sexual Cultures
    In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms’especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Gender and the Media

    by Rosalind Gill ...
    Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates.Eschewing a straightforwardly positive or negative assessment the book explores the contradictory character of contemporary gender representations, where ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Media, Gender and Identity

    An Introduction

    by David Gauntlett ...
    Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities?The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Loving The L Word

    The Complete Series in Focus

    Edited by Dana Heller ...
    Series series Reading Contemporary Television
    The complete and groundbreaking "The L Word" is now out on DVD and this book makes the perfect companion, covering the series in its entirety. "Loving The L Word" picks up where Reading "The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television" (I.B. Tauris, 2006) left off. With new, updated chapters by many of the same television writers and scholars who contributed to the first volume, as well as essays by ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Gender and Media

    Representing, Producing, Consuming

    by Tonny Krijnen, Sofie Van Bauwel ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    This thoroughly revised second edition provides a critical overview of the contemporary debates and discussions surrounding gender and mediated communication.The book is divided into three parts: representing, producing, and consuming, with each section made up of three chapters. The first chapter of each section attempts to answer the most basic questions: ‘Who is represented?’, ‘Who produces ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Feminism at the Movies

    Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema

    Edited by Hilary Radner, Rebecca Stringer ...
    Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today’s changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Queer Media Images

    LGBT Perspectives

    by Richard D. Besel, Kristin Comeforo, Jennifer Guthrie, Brittani Hidahl, Kristel Hladky, Richard Kenney, Zoe Kenney, Adrianne Kunkel, Lori Montalbano, Kristen Norwood, Valarie Schweisberger, Shannon Weber, John M. Wolf, Jason Zingsheim, Bruce E. Drushel, Rachel E. Silverman, Kimiko Akita ...
    Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media images, this book scrutinizes LGBT media representations and how these representations contribute to ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Interrogating Postfeminism

    Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture

    by Lynn Spigel, Angela McRobbie ...
    Series series Console-ing Passions
    This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in productions such as the movie Something’s Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger. Broadly defined, “postfeminism” encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Geisha of a Different Kind

    Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America

    by C. Winter Han ...
    Series Book 12 - Intersections
    In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, white gay man is exalted as the ideal—the most attractive, the most wanted, and the most emulated type of man. For gay Asian American men, often viewed by their peers as submissive or too ‘pretty,’ being sidelined in the gay community is only the latest in a long line of racially-motivated offenses ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Reacting to Reality Television

    Performance, Audience and Value

    by Beverley Skeggs, Helen Wood ...
    The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour.The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves up as television participants for others to watch and criticise. But how do we react ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • How Real Is Reality TV?

    Essays on Representation and Truth

    Edited by David S. Escoffery ...
    American viewers are attracted to what they see as the non-scripted, unpredictable freshness of reality television. But although the episodes may not be scripted, the shows are constructed within a deliberately designed framework, reflecting societal values. The political, economic and personal issues of reality TV are in many ways simply an exaggerated version of everyday life, allowing us to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD