[PDF] Gender Race and Class in Media

• Author : Gail Dines,Jean M. Humez
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release Date : 2011
• ISBN : 9781412974417

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 media scholarship. By encouraging students to critically analyze those media they already interact with for pleasure, and by editing the articles, Gail Dines and Jean Humez are able to make sophisticated concepts and

• Author : Gail Dines
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release Date : 2003
• ISBN : 076192261X

The Second Edition of this popular text examines the mass media as economic and cultural institutions that shape our social identities.

• Author : Meta G. Carstarphen
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2017-08-14
• ISBN : 1524909882

• Author : George Ritzer
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release Date : 2004
• ISBN : 0761926100

The 'Handbook of Social Problems' is devoted to the state of knowledge of social problems. Focussed on social problems of global interest, with weight towards American society, top sociologists have contributed chapters to this text.

• Author : Clint C Wilson II,Felix Gutierrez,Lena Chao
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release Date : 2003-08-28
• ISBN : 0761925163

This third edition presents current information in the rapidly evolving field of minorities' interaction with mass communications, including the portrayals of minorities in the media, advertising and public relations.

• Author : Lori Bindig
• Publisher : Lexington Books
• Release Date : 2014-11-12
• ISBN : 9780739184820

This book is a critical cultural studies analysis of the CW’s hit teen television drama Gossip Girl (2007–2012). Bindig examines the show in terms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, and she explores the potential ramifications of popular media texts like Gossip Girl.

• Author : Manoucheka Celeste
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2016-07-01
• ISBN : 9781317431282

With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse black experiences, and the intersection of black and immigrant identities. Citizenship as it is commonly understood today in the public sphere is a legal issue, yet scholars have done much to move beyond this popular view and situate citizenship in the context of economic, social, and political positioning. The book

• Author : Robyn Ryle
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release Date : 2011-01-25
• ISBN : 9781412965941

A unique multidimensional view of the relationship between the state, society, and oppression Designed to help students analyze and understand political developments in the world around them, this unique text covers a wide array of political sociology concepts and theoretical perspectives. The book's proposed multidimensional view emphasizes the interplay between power, inequality, multiple oppressions, and the state. Blending elements of today's prevalent power structure theories, this framework provides students with a unique focus on the structure of power and inequality

• Author : David Abrahamson,Marcia R. Prior-Miller
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2015-06-05
• ISBN : 9781317524533

Scholarly engagement with the magazine form has, in the last two decades, produced a substantial amount of valuable research. Authored by leading academic authorities in the study of magazines, the chapters in The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research not only create an architecture to organize and archive the developing field of magazine research, but also suggest new avenues of future investigation. Each of 33 chapters surveys the last 20 years of scholarship in its subject area, identifying the major research themes, theoretical

• Author : Marsha J. Hamilton,Claudia Durst Johnson,Eleanor S. Block
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release Date : 2003
• ISBN : 0313317410

Reviews nearly 500 English language studies published between 1915 and 2001 that examine the depiction of ethnic, racial, and national groups as portrayed in U.S. feature films from the inception of cinema through the present.

• Author : Rashmi Luthra
• Publisher : EOLSS Publications
• Release Date : 2009-05-12
• ISBN : 9781905839711

Journalism and Mass Communication is the component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Journalism and Mass Communication deals, in two volumes and cover five main topics, with a myriad of issues of great relevance to our world such as: Evolution of Journalism and Mass Communication; Evolution of Mass Communication: Mass Communication and Sustainable Futures; The Internet as a

• Author : Martha E. Thompson,Michael Armato
• Publisher : Polity
• Release Date : 2012-01-10
• ISBN : 9780745651859

Gender analysis remains central to understanding social life, yet focusing on gender alone is inadequate. Recent feminist sociological scholarship highlights how gender intersects with other systems of privilege and oppression. This exciting new text combines these insights with an innovative, student-centered pedagogical approach. Taking knowledge acquisition as an important first step, the book goes beyond this to provide students with tools and skills necessary to become critical thinkers and, ultimately, investigate gender on their own from a global feminist sociological

• Author : Kathleen Odell Korgen
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2010-04-27
• ISBN : 9781134014316

As the racial hierarchy shifts and inequality between Americans widens, it is important to understand the impact of social class on the rapidly growing multiracial population. Multiracial Americans and Social Class is the first book on multiracial Americans to do so and fills a noticeable void in a growing market. In this book, noted scholars examine the impact of social class on the racial identity of multiracial Americans, in highly readable essays, from a range of sociological perspectives. In doing

• Author : Brian L. Ott,Robert L. Mack
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2020-02-11
• ISBN : 9781119406129

An engaging and accessible introduction to a broad range of critical approaches to contemporary mass media theory and research A decade after its first publication, Critical Media Studies continues toshape and define the field of media studies, offering innovative approaches that enable readers to explore the modern media landscape from a wide variety of perspectives. Integrating foundational theory and contemporary research, this groundbreaking text offers the most comprehensive set of analytical approaches currently available. Twelve critical perspectives—pragmatic, rhetorical, sociological,

• Author : Christopher P. Campbell
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2016-11-03
• ISBN : 9781317695820

The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding. Broad in scope and richly presented from a diversity of perspectives, the book is divided into three sections: first, it summarizes the theoretical approaches that scholars have adopted to analyze the complexities of media messages about race and ethnicity, from the notion of "representation"