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Sexual Identities and the Media encourages students to examine
media as a site of negotiation for how people make sense of their
own and others' sexual identities. Taking a critical/cultural
approach, Wendy Hilton-Morrow and Kathleen Battles weave together
theory, synthesis of existing research, and original analysis of
contemporary media examples in order to explore key areas of
debate, including: an historical context for contemporary GLBTQ
representations; the advantages and limitations of media
visibility, including a discussion of the strengths and limitations
of stereotype research and the quest for "positive"
representations; the role of consumer culture in constructing GLBTQ
identities; strategies of mainstream media resistance by GLBTQ
community members, including oppositional/queer reading strategies
and the production of media products by and for the GLBTQ
community; the complexities of comedy as a popular narrative device
in GLBTQ portrayals; the closet as a structuring metaphor in both
GLBTQ identities and engagement with media; media representations
of GLBTQ bodies as sites of non-normative desires and gender
identities. Featuring an enormous range of discussion questions and
case studies-from celebrity coming-out narratives, transgender
models, and slash fiction writers to Glee and Modern Family-this
textbook offers a timely, informative, and demystifying
introduction to this vital intersection in contemporary culture.
Sexual Identities and the Media encourages students to examine
media as a site of negotiation for how people make sense of their
own and others' sexual identities. Taking a critical/cultural
approach, Wendy Hilton-Morrow and Kathleen Battles weave together
theory, synthesis of existing research, and original analysis of
contemporary media examples in order to explore key areas of
debate, including: an historical context for contemporary GLBTQ
representations; the advantages and limitations of media
visibility, including a discussion of the strengths and limitations
of stereotype research and the quest for "positive"
representations; the role of consumer culture in constructing GLBTQ
identities; strategies of mainstream media resistance by GLBTQ
community members, including oppositional/queer reading strategies
and the production of media products by and for the GLBTQ
community; the complexities of comedy as a popular narrative device
in GLBTQ portrayals; the closet as a structuring metaphor in both
GLBTQ identities and engagement with media; media representations
of GLBTQ bodies as sites of non-normative desires and gender
identities. Featuring an enormous range of discussion questions and
case studies-from celebrity coming-out narratives, transgender
models, and slash fiction writers to Glee and Modern Family-this
textbook offers a timely, informative, and demystifying
introduction to this vital intersection in contemporary culture.
Riccardo Muti conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in this
performance of Mozart's opera recorded at the 1983 Salzburg
Festival. Performers include Margaret Marshall, Ann Murray,
Francisco Araiza and James Morris.
Seventy-five years after the infamous broadcast, does War of the
Worlds still matter? This book answers with a resounding yes!
Contributors revisit the broadcast event in order to reconsider its
place as a milestone in media history, and to explore its role as a
formative event for understanding citizens' media use in times of
crisis. Uniquely focused on the continuities between radio's "new"
media moment and our contemporary era of social media, the
collection takes War of the Worlds as a starting point for
investigating key issues in twenty-first-century communication,
including: the problem of misrepresentation in mediated
communication; the importance of social context for interpreting
communication; and the dynamic role of listeners, viewers and users
in talking back to media producers and institutions. By examining
the "crisis" moment of the original broadcast in its international,
academic, technological, industrial, and historical context, as
well as the role of contemporary new media in ongoing "crisis"
events, this volume demonstrates the broad, historical link between
new media and crisis over the course of a century.
"Calling All Cars" shows how radio played a key role in an emerging
form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression.
Until this time popular culture had characterized the gangster as
hero, but radio crime dramas worked against this attitude and were
ultimately successful in making heroes out of law enforcement
officers. Through close analysis of radio programming of the era
and the production of true crime docudramas, Kathleen Battles
argues that radio was a significant site for overhauling the dismal
public image of policing. However, it was not simply the elevation
of the perception of police that was at stake. Using radio,
reformers sought to control the symbolic terrain through which
citizens encountered the police, and it became a medium to promote
a positive meaning and purpose for policing. For example, Battles
connects the apprehension of criminals by a dragnet with the idea
of using the radio network to both publicize this activity and make
it popular with citizens. The first book to systematically address
the development of crime dramas during the golden age of radio,
"Calling All Cars" explores an important irony: the intimacy of the
newest technology of the time helped create an intimate
authority--the police as the appropriate force for control--over
the citizenry.
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