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

By Gail Dines

Book Overview

Incisive analyses of mass media - including such forms as talk shows, MTV, the Internet, soap operas, television sitcoms, dramatic series, pornography, and advertising-enable this provocative new edition of Gender, Race and Class in Media to engage students in critical mass media scholarship. Issues of power related to gender, race, and class are integrated into a wide range of articles examining the economic and cultural implications of mass media as institutions, including the political economy of media production, textual analysis, and media consumption.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803951647
• ISBN13: 9780803951648
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.3" x 7.0"

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