Gender and Sexual Dissidence on Catalan and Spanish Television Series - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Sexual Dissidence on Catalan and Spanish Television Series write by Silvia Grassi. This book was released on 2016-09-23. Gender and Sexual Dissidence on Catalan and Spanish Television Series available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Construction of Gender Roles and Sexual Dissidence on TV
The Construction of Gender Roles and Sexual Dissidence on TV - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Construction of Gender Roles and Sexual Dissidence on TV write by Silvia Grassi. This book was released on 2013. The Construction of Gender Roles and Sexual Dissidence on TV available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Television and Sexuality
Television and Sexuality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Television and Sexuality write by Jane Arthurs. This book was released on 2004-09-16. Television and Sexuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Television, History, and American Culture
Television, History, and American Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Television, History, and American Culture write by Mary Beth Haralovich. This book was released on 1999. Television, History, and American Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In less than a century, the flickering blue-gray light of the television screen has become a cultural icon. What do the images transmitted by that screen tell us about power, authority, gender stereotypes, and ideology in the United States? Television, History, and American Culture addresses this question by illuminating how television both reflects and influences American culture and identity. The essays collected here focus on women in front of, behind, and on the TV screen, as producers, viewers, and characters. Using feminist and historical criticism, the contributors investigate how television has shaped our understanding of gender, power, race, ethnicity, and sexuality from the 1950s to the present. The topics range from the role that women broadcasters played in radio and early television to the attempts of Desilu Productions to present acceptable images of Hispanic identity, from the impact of TV talk shows on public discourse and the politics of offering viewers positive images of fat women to the negotiation of civil rights, feminism, and abortion rights on news programs and shows such as I Spy and Peyton Place. Innovative and accessible, this book will appeal to those interested in women's studies, American studies, and popular culture and the critical study of television. Contributors. Julie D'Acci, Mary Desjardins, Jane Feuer, Mary Beth Haralovich, Michele Hilmes, Moya Luckett, Lauren Rabinovitz, Jane M. Shattuc, Mark Williams
Television and Sex Role Stereotyping
Television and Sex Role Stereotyping - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Television and Sex Role Stereotyping write by Barrie Gunter. This book was released on 1986. Television and Sex Role Stereotyping available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
