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

by Gail Dines

Book Overview

This text introduces students to contemporary media scholarship in an accessible way that builds upon students own media experiences and interests, analyzing popular genres such as soaps, talk shows, music, pornography, made-for-TV movies, advertising and romance novels. The introduction delineates the major paradigms in media studies today from a critical//cultural perspective. It outlines the books integrated approach to media studies which incorporates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803951639
• ISBN13: 9780803951631
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent resourse for post-modern media theory.

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!

Media, stereotypes, white ideologies, marginalization.

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.

best text reader ever for my communication major

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