[PDF] The Construction Of Gender Roles And Sexual Dissidence On Tv eBook

Author : Silvia Grassi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443812854

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Taking as a starting point an interpretation of the television medium as an Ideological State Apparatus, this book examines how gender roles and non-heteronormative sexualities are constructed in Spanish and Catalan television series. In the first part, which focuses on the construction of gender roles in Catalan soap operas, it applies the analytical paradigms founded by Anglo-Saxon feminist scholars for the content of soap operas to a corpus of material which has rarely been analysed through this perspective. In the second part, which focuses on the construction of non-heteronormative sexualities in Spanish and Catalan television series, the book challenges the rhetoric of “normalisation” and the “essentialist” paradigms which have so far dominated the examination of the construction of sexuality in television series. As such, this book addresses the role performed by television in the construction of meanings which surround gender issues and non-heteronormative sexualities. This is a timely exercise because gender studies and studies of sexual dissidence are fairly recent fields in Spanish and Catalan academia and television has been largely disregarded, especially as far as the analysis of characters and storylines is concerned. As a result, this book represents a major contribution to these fields in the Spanish and Catalan contexts.

Author : Jane Arthurs
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0335224105

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In recent years there has been a marked increase in both the volume and diversity of sexual imagery and talk on television, condemned by some as a ‘rising tide of filth’, celebrated by others as a ‘liberation’ from the regulations of the past. Television and Sexuality questions both these responses through an examination of television’s multiple channels and genres, and the wide range of sexual information and pleasures they provide. The book explores the way that sexual citizenship and sexual consumerism have been defined in the digital era to reveal the underlying assumptions held by the television industry about the tastes and sexual identities of its diverse audiences. It draws on the work of key thinkers in cultural and media studies, as well as feminist and queer theory, to interrogate the political and cultural significance of these developments. With topics including the regulation of taste and decency, sex scandals in the news, the biology of sex in science programmes, and gay, lesbian and postfeminist identities in ‘quality’ drama, this book is key reading for students in cultural and media studies and gender studies.

Author : Barrie Gunter
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :

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On gender stereotyping on television.

Author : Merri Lisa Johnson
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2007-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845112462

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The sexual politics of television culture is the territory covered by this ground-breaking book - the first to demonstrate the ways in which third wave feminist television studies approaches and illuminates mainstream TV. Leading voices in third wave feminism focus on innovative US television shows, including "The Sopranos", "Oz", "Six Feet Under", "The L Word" and the reality-TV show, "The Bachelor" to take a closer look at the contradictions and reciprocities between feminism and television, engaging as they go in theoretical and critical conversations about media culture, third wave feminism, feminist spectatorship, the sex wars, and the politics of visual pleasure. The book offers an exuberant and accessible discussion of what television has to offer today's feminist fan. It also sets a new tone for future debate, turning away from a sober, near-pessimistic trend in much feminist media studies to reconnect with the roots of third wave feminism in riot grrrl culture, sexradical feminism, and black feminism, tracing too the narratives provided by queer theory in which pleasure has a less contested place.

Author : Victoria McCollum
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Race on television
ISBN : 9781138234444

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This book constitutes the first major exploration of HBO's current programming, examined in the context of the transformation of American television and global society. Bringing together an international group of media and cultural studies scholars to offer an in-depth look at issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and power behind HBO's new and original voices, shows such as Game of Thrones, Girls, Insecure, Looking, Silicon Valley, The Comeback, The Leftovers, True Detective and Veep and Vinyl are examined. A significant intervention in television studies, media studies and cultural studies, this book illuminates the emergence of a new era of culturally relevant television that fans, students, and researchers will find lively, accessible and fascinating.

Author : Barrie Gunter
Publisher : John Libbey
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :

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The observation of male and female models in the child's environment has been postulated as a major source of sex-role information, while the audio-visual mass media is one of the two principle sources of models for the developing child.

Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108483410

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Gives a comprehensive critical picture of the development of British fiction from the election of Thatcher to the present.

Author : Arlene Stein
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2006-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0814740286

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Shame, a powerful emotion, leads individuals to feel vulnerable, victimized, rejected. In Shameless, noted scholar and writer Arlene Stein explores American culture's attitudes toward shame and sexuality. Some say that we live in a world without shame. But American culture is a curious mix of the shameless and the shamers, a seemingly endless parade of Pamela Andersons and Jerry Falwells strutting their stuff and wagging their fingers. With thoughtful analysis and wit, Shameless analyzes these clashing visions of sexual morality. While conservatives have brought back sexual shame—by pushing for abstinence-only sex education, limitations on abortion, and prohibitions of gay/lesbian civil rights—progressives hold out for sexual liberalization and a society beyond “the closet.” As these two Americas compete with one another, the future of family life, the right to privacy, and the very meaning of morality hang in the balance.