Gender, Race, and Class in Media A Critical Reader

includes index and biblioraphy

1. A Cultural Studies Approach to Media: Theory.........1 Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, and Media Culture .........7 The State of Media Ownership and Media markets: Competition or Concentration and why should we Care .........19 The Meaning of Memory : Family, class, and Ethnicity in Early network television programs ..........25 Hegemony .............33 Extreme Makeover : Home Edition : An american fairy tale ...............37 Women read the romance:the Interaction of Text and Context .......45 Star trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching .............57 2. Representations of Gender, Race, and Class.........67 Hetero Barbie ........71 Sex and the city ..........75 The whites of Their eyes: Racist ideologies and the Media ..........81 Pornographic Eroticism and Sexual Grotesquerie in Representations of African American Sportswomen ............85 What does race have to do with ugle Betty ..............95 Ralph, Fred, Archie, Homer, and the King of Queens: why Television Keeps Re-Creating the male working - class buffoom ...........101 3. Reading Media Texts Critically .................111 Television`s New Feminism : Prime-Time Representations of Women and Vicvtimization ........115 Mother of the Year : Kathy Hildon, Lynne Spears, Dina Lohan and Bad Celebrity Mother hood .....127 MOre than Baby Mamas: Black Mothers and Hip-Hop Feminism ...........137 Political Culture Jamming : The Dissident Humor of the Daily show with Jon Stewart ........145 Educating the simpsons : Teaching Queer Representations in Contemporary visual Media ..........155 Sexy Like a Girl and Horny Like a Boy..........163 When in rome: Heterosexism, Homophobia, and Sports Talk Radio ...171 Disability, Gender, and Difference on The Sopranos .......185 4. Advertising and Consumer Culture ......195 Image- Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture ...........199 The New Politics of Consumptions ............205 Reaching african American Consumers .......213 Inventing the Cosmo American Consumers........213 Inventing the cosmo Girl .......221 Sex, Lies, advertising .......235 Unraveling the knote: Political Economy and Cultural Hegemony in wedding Media ........243 Supersexualize me ...........255 Adversiting and the Construction of Violent white masculinity .........261 5. Representing sexualities ........271 White man`s Burden : Gonzo Pornography and the Construction of Black Masculinity ..........275 No Money Shot ? Commerce, Pornography, and new sex taste Cultures...........283 That`s so Fun : Selling pornography for men to women in the Girls Next door .......293 One Night in Paris : Wealth, celebrity, and the politics of Humiliation ........301 The pornography of Everyday life .....307 There are bitches and Hoes .......321 Three Faces of Eva: Perpetuation of the Hot-Latina ........327 The Limitations of the Discourse of Norms : Gay visibility and degrees of Transgression .......335 This is the way we live ......and Love ..............337 6. Growing up with Contemporary Media ...........349 The future of Childhood in the Global Television market ......355 From tony the Tiger to Slime Time Live: The content of Commercial Images in children`s Advertising .........365 La Princessa : Hegeonic and Oppositional Representation of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie..........375 Monarchs, Monsters, and Multiculturalism: Disney`s Menu for GLobal Hierarchy ...........383 Constructing the new Ethnicities : Media, Sexuality and diaspora Identity in the lives of South Asian Immigrant Girls .........389 HIV on TV: Conversation with young Gay Men .........399 Why Youth social Network Sites : The role of Networked Publics in Teenage social Life .........409 Born to be wired ...........419 Video games and Machine dreams of Domination ..........427 7. Is TV for Real ............455 8. Interactivity, Virtual community, and Fandom ...............541