Gender, race, and class in media : a critical reader / Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

[Part 1: Cultural studies approach to media : theory] Cultural studies, multiculturalism, and media culture / Douglas Kellner -- The meaning of memory : family, class, and ethnicity in early network television programs / George Lipsitz -- The economics of the media industry / David P. Croteau, William D. Hoynes, and Stefania Milan -- Hegemony / James Lull -- The internet's unholy marriage to capitalism / John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney -- Extreme makeover : home edition : an American fairy tale / Gareth Palmer -- Women read the romance : the interaction of text and context / Janice Radway -- Star Trek rerun, reread, rewritten : fan writing as textual poaching / Henry Jenkins III -- Watching television without pity : the productivity of online fans / Mark Andrejevic -- Reconsidering resistance and incorporation / Richard Butsch.

[Part 2: Representations of gender, race, and class] The whites of their eyes : racist ideologies and the media / Stuart Hall -- "Global motherhood" : the transnational intimacies of white femininity / Raka Shome -- Pornographic eroticism and sexual grotesquerie in representations of African American sportswomen / James McKay and Helen Johnson -- Hetero Barbie? / Mary F. Rogers -- Transgender transitions : sex/gender binaries in the digital age / Kay Siebler -- The "rich bitch" : class and gender on the Real Housewives of New York City / Michael J. Lee and Leigh Moscowitz -- Big talkers : Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio, and the defiant reassertion of white male authority / Jackson Katz.

[Part 3: Reading media texts critically] Pretending to be "Postracial" : the spectacularization of race in reality TV's Survivor / Emily M. Drew -- Television's 'news' feminism : prime-time representations of women and victimization / Lisa M. Cuklanz and Sujata Moorti -- More than baby mamas : black mothers and hip-hop feminism / Marlo David -- Political culture jamming : the dissident humor of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart / Jamie Warner -- Educating The Simpsons : teaching queer representations in contemporary visual media / Gilad Padva -- Resisting, reiterating, and dancing through : the swinging closet doors of Ellen DeGenere's televised personalities / Candace Moore -- "Sexy like a girl and horny like a boy" : contemporary gay "western" narratives about gay Asian men / Chong-suk Han -- When in Rome : heterosexism, homophobia and sports talk radio / David Nylund.

[Part 4: Advertising and consumer culture] Image-based culture : advertising and popular culture / Sut Jhally -- The new politics of consumption : why Americans want so much more than they need / Juliet Schor -- Inventing the Cosmo girl : class identity and girl-style American dreams / Laurie Ouellette -- Sex, lies, and advertising / Gloria Steinem -- Supersexualize me! Advertising and the "midriffs" / Rosalind Gill -- Branding "real" social change in Dove's campaign for real beauty / Dara Persis Murray ; Nothing less than perfect : female celebrity, ageing, and hyperscrutiny in the gossip industry / Kristy Fairclough -- To see and be seen : celebrity practice on Twitter / Alice Marwick and danah boyd -- How to "use your Olympian" : the paradox of athlete authenticity and commercialization in the contemporary Olympic games / Momin Rahman and Sean Lockwood --Mapping commercial intertextuality : HBO's True Blood / Jonathan Hardy.

[Part 5: Representing sexualities] That teenage feeling : Twilight, fantasy, and feminist readers / Anne Helen Petersen -- Deadly love : images of dating violence in the "Twilight Saga" / Victoria E. Collins and Dianne C. Carmody -- The white man's burden : Gonzo pornography and the construction of black masculinity / Gail Dines -- The pornography of everyday life / Jane Caputi -- There are bitches and hoes / Tricia Rose -- The limitations of the discourse of norms : gay visibility and degrees of transgression / Jay Clarkson -- Sex lives in Second Life / Robert Alan Brookey and Kristopher L. Cannon -- Queering Queer Eye : the stability of gay identity confronts the liminality of trans embodiment / E. Tristan Booth.

[Part 6: Growing up with contemporary media] The future of childhood in the global television market / Dafna Lemish -- Growing up female in a celebrity-based pop culture / Gail Dines -- La Princesa Plastica : hegemonic and oppositional representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie / Karen Goldman -- Monarchs, monsters, and multiculturalism : Disney's menu for global hierarchy / Lee Artz -- Constructing the "new ethnicities" : media, sexuality and diaspora identity in the lives of South Asian immigrant girls / Meenakshi Gigi Durham -- HIV on TV : conversations with young gay men / Kathleen P. Farrell -- Video games and machine dreams of domination / John Sanbonmatsu -- Strategic simulations and our past : the bias of computer games in the presentation of history / Kevin Schut -- "You play like a girl!" cross-gender competition and the uneven playing field / Elena Bertozzi.

[Part 7: Is TV for real?] Six decades of social class in American television sitcoms / Richard Butsch -- Marketing "reality" to the world : Survivor, post-Fordism, and reality television / Chris Jordan -- Critiquing reality-based televisual Black fatherhood : a critical analysis of Run's House and Snoop Dogg's Father Hood / Debra C. Smith -- A shot at half-exposure : Asian Americans in reality TV shows / Grace Wang -- "Take responsibility for yourself" : Judge Judy and the neoliberal citizen / Laurie Ouellette -- Television and the domestication of cosmetic surgery / Sue Tait -- Drama is the cure for gossip : television's turn to theatricality in a time of media transition / Abigail De Kosnik -- Free TV : file-sharing and the value of television / Michael Z. Newman.

[Part 8: Interactivity, virtual community, and fandom] Pop cosmopolitanism : mapping cultural flows in an age of convergence / Henry Jenkins III -- The political economy of privacy on Facebook / Christian Fuchs -- Showtime thinks, therefore I am : the corporate construction of "The Lesbian" on Sho.Com's The L Word site / Kelly Kessler -- Reading the romance of fan cultural production : music videos of a television lesbian couple / Eve Ng -- "Don't hate the player, hate the game" : the racialization of labor in World of Warcraft / Lisa Nakamura -- Accidental activists : fan activism in the soap opera community / Melissa C. Scardaville -- Fan activists and the politics of race in The Last Airbender / Lori Kido Lopez -- GimpGirl grows up : women with disabilities rethinking, redefining, and reclaiming community / Jennifer Cole, Jason Nolan, Yukari Seko, Katherine Mancuso, and Alejandra Ospina -- The Latino cyber-moral panic process in the United States / Nadia Yamel Flores-Yeffal, Guadalupe Vidales, and April Plemons -- How it feels to be viral me : affective labor and Asian American YouTube performance / Christine Bacareza Balance -- Resources and media activist organizations.

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