Book Description
This accessible introduction to the relationship between media and gender draws on queer theory, as well as examples from film, television, and men's and women's magazines.
About the Author
David Gauntlett is lecturer in Communication at the University of Leeds. His previous publications include TV Living (Routledge 1999), Web Studies (2000) and Moving Experiences (1997).
Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction FROM THE PUBLISHER
This accessible introduction to the relationship between media and gender draws on queer theory, as well as examples from film, television, and men's and women's magazines.
FROM THE CRITICS
Angela McRobbie
...an exuberant account of the changing landscape of popular media and culture. David Gauntlett shows how gender politics are reinvented for popular consumption, in ways which illustrate the media alert to its own critics but also influenced by new ways of thinking and effected by the introduction of new constraints.
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