Gender, race, and class in media : a critical reader / edited by Gail Dines, Jean M. Humez, William Edward Yousman and Lori B. Bindig.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I: A Cultural Studies Approach to Media: TheoryChapter 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 LipsitzChapter 3: The Economics of the Media Industry - by David P. Croteau and William D. HoynesChapter 4: Hegemony - by James LullChapter 5: The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism - by John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesneyChapter 6: Television and the Cultivation of Authoritarianism: A Return Visit from an Unexpected Friend - by Michael Morgan and James ShanahanChapter 7: Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context - by Janice RadwayChapter 8: Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching - by Henry Jenkins IIIChapter 9: Reconsidering Resistance and Incorporation - by Richard ButschPart II: Representations of Gender, Race, and ClassChapter 10: The Year We Obsessed Over Identity - by Wesley MorrisChapter 11: The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media - by Stuart HallChapter 12: Redskins: Insult and Brand (Introduction) - C. Richard KingChapter 13: Pornographic Eroticism and Sexual Grotesquerie in Representations of African-American Sportswomen - by James McKay and Helen JohnsonChapter 14: Dissolving the Other: Orientalism, Consumption, and Katy Perry’s Insatiable Dark Horse - by Rosemary PenningtonChapter 15: “Global Motherhood”: The Transnational Intimacies of White Femininity - by Raka ShomeChapter 16: Transgender Transitions: Sex/Gender Binaries in the Digital Age - by Kay SieblerChapter 17: The “Rich Bitch”: Class and Gender on the Real Housewives of New York City - by Michael J. Lee and Leigh MoscowitzChapter 18: From Rush Limbaugh to Donald Trump: Conservative Talk Radio and the Defiant Reassertion of White Male Authority - by Jackson KatzPart III: Reading Media Texts CriticallyChapter 19: Inventing the Cosmo Girl: Class Identity and Girl-Style American Dreams - by Laurie OuelletteChapter 20: Political Culture Jamming: The Dissident Humor of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - by Jamie WarnerChapter 21: Educating The Simpsons: Teaching Queer Representations in Contemporary Visual Media - by Gilad PadvaChapter 22: Resisting, Reiterating, and Dancing Through: The Swinging Closet Doors of Ellen DeGeneres’s Televised Personalities - by Candace MooreChapter 23: When in Rome: Heterosexism, Homophobia and Sports Talk Radio - by David NylundChapter 24: Playing “Redneck”: White Masculinity and Working-Class Performance on Duck Dynasty - by Shannon E. M. O’SullivanChapter 25: Black Women and Black Men in Hip Hop Music: Misogyny, Violence and the Negotiation of (White-Owned) Space - by Guillermo Rebollo-Gil and AmandaChapter 26: “[In]Justice Rolls Down Like Water…” Challenging White Supremacy in Media Constructions of Crime and Punishment - by Bill YousmanPart IV: Advertising and Consumer CultureChapter 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 SchorChapter 29: Pepsi’s New Ad is a Total Success - by Ian BogostChapter 30: Sex, Lies, and Advertising - by Gloria SteinemChapter 31: Supersexualize Me! Advertising and the “Midriffs” - by Rosalind GillChapter 32: Branding “Real” Social Change in Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty - by Dara Persis MurrayChapter 33: Nothing Less Than Perfect: Female Celebrity, Ageing, and Hyperscrutiny in the Gossip Industry - by Kirsty FaircloughChapter 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 Weekend’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 OspinaChapter 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

This provocative new edition examines the mass media as economic and cultural institutions that shape our social identities, particularly regarding gender, race and class. A comprehensive introductory section outlines the book's integrated approach to media studies, which incorporates three distinct but related areas of investigation: the political economy of production, textual analysis and audience response