Gender, Race, and Class in Media

Gail Dines is a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston, where she is also chair of the American studies department. She has been researching and writing about the pornography industry for over twenty years. She has written numerous articles on pornography, media images of women, and representations of race in pop culture. Her latest book is PORNLAND: How Pornography has Hijacked our Sexuality. She is a cofounder of the activist group Stop Porn Culture! Jean M. Humez is a professor emerita of women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she has taught courses in both women’s studies and American studies and chaired the women’s studies department. She designed and taught an undergraduate women and the media course early in her career, and came to collaborate with Gail Dines through her interest in media text analysis. She has also published books and articles on African American women’s spiritual and secular autobiographies, and on women and gender in Shaker religion. Her most recent book is Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories.

Part I: A Cultural Studies Approach to Media: Theory
Chapter 1: Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, and Media Culture - by Douglas Kellner
Chapter 2: The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs - by George Lipsitz
Chapter 3: The Economics of the Media Industry - by David P. Croteau and William D. Hoynes
Chapter 4: Hegemony - by James Lull
Chapter 5: The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism - by John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney
Chapter 6: Television and the Cultivation of Authoritarianism: A Return Visit from an Unexpected Friend - by Michael Morgan and James Shanahan
Chapter 7: Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context - by Janice Radway
Chapter 8: Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching - by Henry Jenkins III
Chapter 9: Reconsidering Resistance and Incorporation - by Richard Butsch
Part II: Representations of Gender, Race, and Class
Chapter 10: The Year We Obsessed Over Identity - by Wesley Morris
Chapter 11: The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media - by Stuart Hall
Chapter 12: Redskins: Insult and Brand (Introduction) - C. Richard King
Chapter 13: Pornographic Eroticism and Sexual Grotesquerie in Representations of African-American Sportswomen - by James McKay and Helen Johnson
Chapter 14: Dissolving the Other: Orientalism, Consumption, and Katy Perry’s Insatiable Dark Horse - by Rosemary Pennington
Chapter 15: “Global Motherhood”: The Transnational Intimacies of White Femininity - by Raka Shome
Chapter 16: Transgender Transitions: Sex/Gender Binaries in the Digital Age - by Kay Siebler
Chapter 17: The “Rich Bitch”: Class and Gender on the Real Housewives of New York City - by Michael J. Lee and Leigh Moscowitz
Chapter 18: From Rush Limbaugh to Donald Trump: Conservative Talk Radio and the Defiant Reassertion of White Male Authority - by Jackson Katz
Part III: Reading Media Texts Critically
Chapter 19: Inventing the Cosmo Girl: Class Identity and Girl-Style American Dreams - by Laurie Ouellette
Chapter 20: Political Culture Jamming: The Dissident Humor of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - by Jamie Warner
Chapter 21: Educating The Simpsons: Teaching Queer Representations in Contemporary Visual Media - by Gilad Padva
Chapter 22: Resisting, Reiterating, and Dancing Through: The Swinging Closet Doors of Ellen DeGeneres’s Televised Personalities - by Candace Moore
Chapter 23: When in Rome: Heterosexism, Homophobia and Sports Talk Radio - by David Nylund
Chapter 24: Playing “Redneck”: White Masculinity and Working-Class Performance on Duck Dynasty - by Shannon E. M. O’Sullivan
Chapter 25: Black Women and Black Men in Hip Hop Music: Misogyny, Violence and the Negotiation of (White-Owned) Space - by Guillermo Rebollo-Gil and Amanda
Chapter 26: “[In]Justice Rolls Down Like Water…” Challenging White Supremacy in Media Constructions of Crime and Punishment - by Bill Yousman
Part IV: Advertising and Consumer Culture
Chapter 27: Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture - by Sut Jhally
Chapter 28: The New Politics of Consumption: Why Americans Want So Much More Than They Need - by Juliet Schor
Chapter 29: Pepsi’s New Ad is a Total Success - by Ian Bogost
Chapter 30: Sex, Lies, and Advertising - by Gloria Steinem
Chapter 31: Supersexualize Me! Advertising and the “Midriffs” - by Rosalind Gill
Chapter 32: Branding “Real” Social Change in Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty - by Dara Persis Murray
Chapter 33: Nothing Less Than Perfect: Female Celebrity, Ageing, and Hyperscrutiny in the Gossip Industry - by Kirsty Fairclough
Chapter 34: How to “Use your Olympian”: The Paradox of Athletic Authenticity and Commercialization in the Contemporary Olympic Games - by Momin Rahman and Sean Lockwood
Chapter 35: Mapping Commercial Intertextuality: HBO’s True Blood - by Jonathan Hardy
Part V: Representing Sexualities
Chapter 36: Pornographic Values: Hierarchy and Hubris - by Robert Jensen
Chapter 37: “There is no such thing as IT”: Toward a Critical Understanding of the Porn Industry - by Gail Dines
Chapter 38: The Pornography of Everyday Life - by Jane Caputi
Chapter 39: Deadly Love: Images of Dating Violence in the "Twilight Saga” - by Victoria E. Collins and Dianne C. Carmody
Chapter 40: Resistant Masculinities in Alternative R&B? Understanding Frank Ocean and The Weeknd’s Representations of Gender - by Frederik Dhaenens and Sander De Ridder
Chapter 41: The Limitations of the Discourse of Norms: Gay Visibility and Degrees of Transgression - by Jay Clarkson
Chapter 42: Hetero Barbie? - by Mary F. Rogers
Chapter 43: Fantasies of Exposure: Belly Dancing, the Veil, and the Drag of History - by Joanna Mansbridge
Part VI: Growing Up with Contemporary Media
Chapter 44: The Future of Childhood in the Global Television Market - by Dafna Lemish
Chapter 45: Disney: 21st Century Leader in Animating Global Inequality - by Lee Artz
Chapter 46: La Princesa Plastica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie - by Karen Goldman
Chapter 47: Growing Up Female in a Celebrity-Based Pop - by Gail Dines
Chapter 48: “Too many bad role models for us girls”: Girls, Female Pop Celebrities and “Sexualization” - by Sue Jackson and Tiina Vares
Chapter 49: Privates in the Online Public: Sex(ting) and Reputation on Social Media - by Michael Salter
Chapter 50: Video Games: Machine Dreams of Domination - by John Sanbonmatsu
Chapter 51: “You Play Like a Girl”: Cross-Gender Competition and the Uneven Playing Field - by Elena Bertozzi
Part VII: Still Watching Television in the Digital Age
Chapter 52: Why Television Sitcoms Kept Re-creating Male Working-Class Buffoons for Decades - by Richard Butsch
Chapter 53: Marketing “Reality” to the World: Survivor, Post-Fordism, and Reality Television - by Chris Jordan
Chapter 54: A Shot at Half-Exposure: Asian Americans in Reality TV Shows - by Grace Wang
Chapter 55: The Racial Logic of Grey’s Anatomy: Shonda Rhimes and Her “Post-Civil Rights, Post-Feminist” Series - by Kristen Warner
Chapter 56: Performing Class: Gilmore Girls and a Classless Neoliberal ‘Middle-Class’ - by Daniela Mastrocola
Chapter 57: Don′t Drop the Soap vs. the Soap Opera: The Representation of Male and Female Prisoners on U.S. Television - by Hannah Mueller
Chapter 58: Donald Trump and the Politics of Spectacle - by Douglas Kellner
Chapter 59: Is this TVIV? On Netflix, TVIII and Binge-Watching - by Mareike Jenner
Part VIII Social Media, Virtual Community, and Fandom
Chapter 60: Pop Cosmopolitanism: Mapping Cultural Flows in an Age of Convergence - by Henry Jenkins III
Chapter 61: The Political Economy of Privacy on Facebook - by Christian Fuchs
Chapter 62: To See and Be Seen: Celebrity Practice on Twitter - by Alice Marwick and Danah Boyd
Chapter 63: It’s About Ethics in Games Journalism? Gamergaters and Geek Masculinity - by Andrea Braithwaite
Chapter 64: “Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game”: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft - by Lisa Nakamura
Chapter 65: GimpGirl Grows Up: Women With Disabilities Rethinking, Redefining, and Reclaiming Community - by Jennifer Cole, Jason Nolan, Yukari Seko, Katherine Mancuso, and Alejandra Ospina
Chapter 66: How It Feels to Be Viral Me: Affective Labor and Asian American YouTube Performance - by Christine Bacareza Balance
Chapter 67: The Latino Cyber-Moral Panic Process in the United States - by Nadia Yamel Flores-Yeffal, Guadalupe Vidales, and April Plemons
Chapter 68: #Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United States - by Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa