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Animals are everywhere. They inhabit our forests, our fields, our
imaginations, our dreams, and our stories. Making appearances in
advertisements, television programs, movies, books, Internet memes,
and art, symbolic animals do tremendous work for us selling goods,
services, and ideas, as well as acting as stand-ins for our
interests and ideas. Yet, does knowing animals only symbolically
impact their lived experiences? Seeing Species: Re-presentations of
Animals in Media & Popular Culture examines the use of animals
in media, tracking species from appearances in rock art and picture
books to contemporary portrayals in television programs and movies.
Primary questions explored include: Where does thinking of other
beings in a detached, impersonal, and objectified way come from? Do
the mass media contribute to this distancing? When did humans first
think about animals as other others? Main themes include examining
the persistence of the human-animal divide, parallels in the
treatment of otherized human beings and animals, and the role of
media in either liberating or limiting real animals. This book
brings together sociological, psychological, historical, cultural,
and environmental ways of thinking about nonhuman animals and our
relationships with them. In particular, ecopsychological thinking
locates and identifies the connections between how we re-present
animals and the impact on their lived experiences in terms of
distancing, generating a false sense of intimacy, and stereotyping.
Re-presentations of animals are discussed in terms of the role the
media do or do not play in perpetuating status quo beliefs about
them and their relationship with humans. This includes theories and
methods such as phenomenology, semiotics, textual analysis, and
pragmatism, with the goal of unpacking re-presentations of animals
in order to learn not only what they say about human beings but
also how we regard members of other species.
Animals are everywhere. They inhabit our forests, our fields, our
imaginations, our dreams, and our stories. Making appearances in
advertisements, television programs, movies, books, Internet memes,
and art, symbolic animals do tremendous work for us selling goods,
services, and ideas, as well as acting as stand-ins for our
interests and ideas. Yet, does knowing animals only symbolically
impact their lived experiences? Seeing Species: Re-presentations of
Animals in Media & Popular Culture examines the use of animals
in media, tracking species from appearances in rock art and picture
books to contemporary portrayals in television programs and movies.
Primary questions explored include: Where does thinking of other
beings in a detached, impersonal, and objectified way come from? Do
the mass media contribute to this distancing? When did humans first
think about animals as other others? Main themes include examining
the persistence of the human-animal divide, parallels in the
treatment of otherized human beings and animals, and the role of
media in either liberating or limiting real animals. This book
brings together sociological, psychological, historical, cultural,
and environmental ways of thinking about nonhuman animals and our
relationships with them. In particular, ecopsychological thinking
locates and identifies the connections between how we re-present
animals and the impact on their lived experiences in terms of
distancing, generating a false sense of intimacy, and stereotyping.
Re-presentations of animals are discussed in terms of the role the
media do or do not play in perpetuating status quo beliefs about
them and their relationship with humans. This includes theories and
methods such as phenomenology, semiotics, textual analysis, and
pragmatism, with the goal of unpacking re-presentations of animals
in order to learn not only what they say about human beings but
also how we regard members of other species.
Critical Thinking About Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media
explores how romantic coupleship is represented in books,
magazines, popular music, movies, television, and the Internet
within entertainment, advertising, and news/information. This
distinctive reader offers diverse theoretical perspectives and
methodological approaches on the representation of romantic
relationships across the media spectrum. Filling a void in existing
media scholarship, this collection explores the media's influence
on perceptions and expectations in relationships, including the
myths, stereotypes, and prescriptions manifested throughout the
press. Featuring fresh voices, as well as the perspectives of
seasoned veterans, contributions include quantitative and
qualitative studies along with cultural/critical, feminist, and
descriptive analyses. Readers will appreciate the relevance of this
topic in their own lives, and the volume invites readers to become
activists for media consumer empowerment. Critical Thinking About
Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media has been developed for use
in courses on mass media and society, media studies, and media
literacy. for scholars, researchers, and others interested in how
the media influence the personal lives of individuals.
Sex in the media is one of the hottest topics of the day. We know
that advertising, television, cinema, and other forms of
communication use sex to sell us products and pump up story lines.
The question is: why are sex and sexuality such effective tools for
getting our attention? Sexing the Media: How and Why We Do It is a
textbook that explores answers to this question through historical,
sociological, psychological, and ideological perspectives. It
explores how media and other social institutions use sex and
sexuality (the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses)
to advance economic and ideological interests.Cinema, music, music
videos, television programs, advertising, and the Internet are
discussed as carriers of deliberately constructed messages that
contribute to and support a master narrative that privileges
heterosexuality and monogamy. This interdisciplinary text includes
contemporary case studies as examples that would be useful in
courses in media, cultural studies, sociology, and psychology.
This book is an examination of how American mass media, including
advertising, presents Otherness - anyone or anything constructed as
different from an established norm - in terms of gender, race, sex,
disabilities, and other markers of difference. Using a mythological
lens, the book looks below the surface of media content to explore
the psychological, social, and economic underpinnings of a system
of beliefs that result in prejudice, discrimination, and
oppression. Designed to raise awareness of the foundations of
historically-based inequities in the American social, cultural, and
economic milieu, the author shows how inequalities are maintained,
at least in part, by mass media, popular culture, and advertising
representations of Otherness. The book aims to increase awareness
of stereotyping in the media, and expose how the construction of
people as Others contributes to their marginalization. Written in
an accessible and engaging style, with student-friendly discussion
questions and resources, this book is suitable for upper-level
undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Critical Thinking About Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media
explores how romantic coupleship is represented in books,
magazines, popular music, movies, television, and the Internet
within entertainment, advertising, and news/information. This
distinctive reader offers diverse theoretical perspectives and
methodological approaches on the representation of romantic
relationships across the media spectrum. Filling a void in existing
media scholarship, this collection explores the media's influence
on perceptions and expectations in relationships, including the
myths, stereotypes, and prescriptions manifested throughout the
press. Featuring fresh voices, as well as the perspectives of
seasoned veterans, contributions include quantitative and
qualitative studies along with cultural/critical, feminist, and
descriptive analyses. Readers will appreciate the relevance of this
topic in their own lives, and the volume invites readers to become
activists for media consumer empowerment. Critical Thinking About
Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media has been developed for use
in courses on mass media and society, media studies, and media
literacy. for scholars, researchers, and others interested in how
the media influence the personal lives of individuals.
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