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This is a concise and accessible introduction into the concept of
objectification, one of the most frequently recurring terms in both
academic and media debates on the gendered politics of contemporary
culture, and core to critiquing the social positions of sex and
sexism. Objectification is an issue of media representation and
everyday experiences alike. Central to theories of film
spectatorship, beauty fashion and sex, objectification is connected
to the harassment and discrimination of women, to the sexualization
of culture and the pressing presence of body norms within media.
This concise guidebook traces the history of the term's emergence
and its use in a variety of contexts such as debates about
sexualization and the male gaze, and its mobilization in connection
with the body, selfies and pornography, as well as in feminist
activism. It will be an essential introduction for undergraduate
and postgraduate students in Gender Studies, Media Studies,
Sociology, Cultural Studies or Visual Arts.
The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is a vibrant
and authoritative exploration of the ways in which sex and
sexualities are mediated in modern media and everyday life. The 40
chapters in this volume offer a snapshot of the remarkable
diversification of approaches and research within the field,
bringing together a wide range of scholars and researchers from
around the world and from different disciplinary backgrounds
including cultural studies, education, history, media studies,
sexuality studies and sociology. The volume presents a broad array
of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives,
as authors address a series of important questions that have
consequences for current and future thinking in the field. Topics
explored include post-feminism, masculinities, media industries,
queer identities, video games, media activism, music videos,
sexualisation, celebrities, sport, sex-advice books, pornography
and erotica, and social and mobile media. The Routledge Companion
to Media, Sex and Sexuality is an essential guide to the central
ideas, concepts and debates currently shaping research in mediated
sexualities and the connections between conceptions of sexual
identity, bodies and media technologies.
This is a concise and accessible introduction into the concept of
objectification, one of the most frequently recurring terms in both
academic and media debates on the gendered politics of contemporary
culture, and core to critiquing the social positions of sex and
sexism. Objectification is an issue of media representation and
everyday experiences alike. Central to theories of film
spectatorship, beauty fashion and sex, objectification is connected
to the harassment and discrimination of women, to the sexualization
of culture and the pressing presence of body norms within media.
This concise guidebook traces the history of the term's emergence
and its use in a variety of contexts such as debates about
sexualization and the male gaze, and its mobilization in connection
with the body, selfies and pornography, as well as in feminist
activism. It will be an essential introduction for undergraduate
and postgraduate students in Gender Studies, Media Studies,
Sociology, Cultural Studies or Visual Arts.
This book examines ways of developing research on young people's
sexual cultures in the context of a media-saturated and
technology-focused contemporary culture, an area of study that
remains relatively unexplored despite heightened concern about
young people, sex and culture. Unlike the widespread sensationalist
reporting about the 'pornification' of young people's lives and the
policy documents which have emerged on 'sexualization', the book
foregrounds the need for a critical approach which recognizes the
complexity of culture and is able to unpack what is at stake in the
construction of particular views and practices. It emphasizes how
concerns about 'harm' and 'risk', however well-intentioned, can
work against young people's interests and argues that education
will only be effective if it engages with young people and is based
on a commitment to young people's rights and to the broader notion
of sexual rights. Drawing together key researchers in the area the
book examines health policy, sex and relationships education, sex
abuse therapy, television production, sport, internet use, and the
production and consumption of commercial goods and media. This book
will be of interest to the many academics and groups who are
concerned with young people's sexual cultures and their place
within society. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Sex Education.
This book examines ways of developing research on young people's
sexual cultures in the context of a media-saturated and
technology-focused contemporary culture, an area of study that
remains relatively unexplored despite heightened concern about
young people, sex and culture. Unlike the widespread sensationalist
reporting about the 'pornification' of young people's lives and the
policy documents which have emerged on 'sexualization', the book
foregrounds the need for a critical approach which recognizes the
complexity of culture and is able to unpack what is at stake in the
construction of particular views and practices. It emphasizes how
concerns about 'harm' and 'risk', however well-intentioned, can
work against young people's interests and argues that education
will only be effective if it engages with young people and is based
on a commitment to young people's rights and to the broader notion
of sexual rights. Drawing together key researchers in the area the
book examines health policy, sex and relationships education, sex
abuse therapy, television production, sport, internet use, and the
production and consumption of commercial goods and media. This book
will be of interest to the many academics and groups who are
concerned with young people's sexual cultures and their place
within society. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Sex Education.
Game of Thrones was an international sensation, and has been looked
at from many different angles. But to date there has been little
research into its audiences: who they were, how they engaged with
and responded to it. This book presents the findings of a major
international research project that garnered more than 10,000
responses to an innovative 'qualiquantitative' questionnaire. Among
its findings are: a new way of understanding the place and role of
favourite characters in audiences’ responses; new insights into
the role of fantasy in encouraging thinking about our own world;
and an account of two combined emotions – relish and anguish –
which structure audiences’ reactions to controversial elements in
the series. -- .
The media are inextricable from controversy yet "controversy" is
an under-theorized term in studies of the media, even though
controversies over specific images, from "video nasties" to
snapshots from Abu Ghraib, have structured our understanding of the
media's power, seductiveness and dangers. This collection offers a
series of case studies of recent media controversies and draws on
new perspectives in cultural studies to consider a wide variety of
types of image, including newspaper cartoons, advertising and
fashion photography, music videos, photojournalism, news media, art
works, hardcore porn film, anime, horror and exploitation movies,
video games, and YouTube reaction videos. In the current climate
when images appear to be increasingly controversial, it is
important that media controversies are not made the excuse for
greater censorship and the demonization of "dangerous" images and
the audiences that consume them. The case studies in this book
suggest how we might achieve a more subtle understanding of
controversial images and negotiate the difficult terrain of the new
media landscape.
Game of Thrones was an international sensation, and has been looked
at from many different angles. But to date there has been little
research into its audiences: who they were, how they engaged with
and responded to it. This book presents the findings of a major
international research project that garnered more than 10,000
responses to an innovative 'qualiquantitative' questionnaire. Among
its findings are: a new way of understanding the place and role of
favourite characters in audiences' responses; new insights into the
role of fantasy in encouraging thinking about our own world; and an
account of two combined emotions - relish and anguish - which
structure audiences' reactions to controversial elements in the
series. -- .
The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is a vibrant
and authoritative exploration of the ways in which sex and
sexualities are mediated in modern media and everyday life. The 40
chapters in this volume offer a snapshot of the remarkable
diversification of approaches and research within the field,
bringing together a wide range of scholars and researchers from
around the world and from different disciplinary backgrounds
including cultural studies, education, history, media studies,
sexuality studies and sociology. The volume presents a broad array
of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives,
as authors address a series of important questions that have
consequences for current and future thinking in the field. Topics
explored include post-feminism, masculinities, media industries,
queer identities, video games, media activism, music videos,
sexualisation, celebrities, sport, sex-advice books, pornography
and erotica, and social and mobile media. The Routledge Companion
to Media, Sex and Sexuality is an essential guide to the central
ideas, concepts and debates currently shaping research in mediated
sexualities and the connections between conceptions of sexual
identity, bodies and media technologies.
Pornography has always been central to debates about sex and
emerging new media technologies. Today, debate is increasingly
focused on online pornographies. This collection examines
pornography's significance as a focus of definition, debate, and
myth; its development as a mainstream entertainment industry; and
the emergence of the new economy of Porn 2.0, and of new types of
porn labor and professionalism. It looks at porn style behind the
scenes of straight hardcore, in gay, lesbian, and queer
pornographies, in shock sites, and in amateur erotica, and
investigates the rise of the online porn fan community, the sex
blogger, the erotic rate-me site and the visual cultures of
swingers. Treating these developments as part of a broader set of
economic and cultural transformations, this book argues that new
porn practices reveal much about contemporary and competing views
of sex and the self, the real and the body, culture, and commerce.
Offering a series of case studies of recent media controversies,
this collection draws on new perspectives in cultural studies to
consider a wide variety of images. The book suggest how we might
achieve a more subtle understanding of controversial images and
negotiate the difficult terrain of the new media landscape.
Pornography has always been central to debates about sex and
emerging new media technologies. Today, debate is increasingly
focused on online pornographies. This collection examines
pornography's significance as a focus of definition, debate, and
myth; its development as a mainstream entertainment industry; and
the emergence of the new economy of Porn 2.0, and of new types of
porn labor and professionalism. It looks at porn style behind the
scenes of straight hardcore, in gay, lesbian, and queer
pornographies, in shock sites, and in amateur erotica, and
investigates the rise of the online porn fan community, the sex
blogger, the erotic rate-me site and the visual cultures of
swingers. Treating these developments as part of a broader set of
economic and cultural transformations, this book argues that new
porn practices reveal much about contemporary and competing views
of sex and the self, the real and the body, culture, and commerce.
From cyber porn to striptease culture, this trailblaising book
uncovers the shockingly fascinating new ways that western society
is being sexualized. We don't realise how far the
'pornogrification' of culture has reached - this book does and
discusses it graphically but responsibly. Media interest in this
subject is huge."Mainstreaming Sex" uncovers the significant
impact, hitherto only half glimpsed, that striptease culture is
having on our media, relationships, educational and working lives.
It is a welcome and much needed book.Western culture is exhibiting
its fascination with sex in new, often surprising ways. Pole
dancing is a form of keep fit, porn stars find work as agony aunts,
pornography itself is just 'a mouse click away', and phone sex,
email affairs and cybersex are now part of our everyday lives. This
sexualization of modern culture is the subject widely discussed
here.In original chapters, the contributors confront the reality
that in all aspects of social and cultural life, sex is being
'mainstreamed'. They explore film, print and online pornographies;
representations of masturbation in film and television,
supersexualized advertising, and problem page sex. They also
examine young people's views of sex in mainstream media; women's
use of sexual media in the home; and, pole dancing as exercise and
performance and third wave feminism and the sexualization debate.
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