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Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom

Author : Greg Wolfman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000902747

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Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom by Greg Wolfman Pdf

Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom examines how four sitcoms – Friends, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, and New Girl – mediate the tense relationship between neoliberalism and masculinities. Why is Ross in Friends so worried about everything? This book argues that the men in Friends and similar shows that follow young, straight, mostly white twentysomethings in major US cities are beset by a range of social and economic concerns about their place in society. Using multiple methods of analysis to examine these shows – including conjunctural analysis, historiographical method, and critical discourse analysis – a range of topics in these shows are examined, from sexuality through to homosociality, from race through to nationality. This book makes an insightful contribution to work on the television sitcom and on neoliberalism in culture and society. It will be an ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, post-graduates, and researchers in a range of disciplines including television and screen studies, critical studies on men and masculinities and humor studies.

Homer Simpson Marches on Washington

Author : Timothy M. Dale,Joseph J. Foy
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813173757

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Homer Simpson Marches on Washington by Timothy M. Dale,Joseph J. Foy Pdf

The Simpsons questions what is culturally acceptable, showcasing controversial issues like homosexuality, animal rights, the war on terror, and religion. This subtle form of political analysis is effective in changing opinions and attitudes on a large scale. Homer Simpson Marches on Washington explores the transformative power that enables popular culture to influence political agendas, frame the consciousness of audiences, and create profound shifts in values and ideals. To investigate the full spectrum of popular culture in a democratic society, editors Timothy M. Dale and Joseph J. Foy gather a top-notch team of scholars who use television shows such as Star Trek, The X-Files, All in the Family, The View, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Colbert Report, as well as movies and popular music, to investigate contemporary issues in American popular culture.

Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance

Author : Jonathan A. Allan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351240000

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Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance by Jonathan A. Allan Pdf

Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance seeks to open a lively and accessible discussion between critical studies of men and masculinities and popular romance studies, especially its continued interest in what Janice Radway has called "the purity of his maleness." Popular romance novels, perhaps more than any other genre, explore sexuality and gender, creating an ideal space in which to consider and explore theoretical models that think seriously about gender. The romance novel has long been criticized and celebrated by feminist critics. How can these novels maintain, according to some, feminist ideals, while also upholding what Raewyn Connell has long theorized as "hegemonic masculinity"? This volume is an original and important contribution examining the previously underexamined nexus of masculinity and popular romance studies. It will be of key interest to undergraduates and postgraduates in Masculinities, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Literary Studies, and highly relevant to courses in Masculinity Studies, Pop Culture Studies, Queer Studies and Sexuality Studies.

Performing Masculinity

Author : R. Emig,A. Rowland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230276086

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Performing Masculinity by R. Emig,A. Rowland Pdf

This interdisciplinary study analyzes the ways in which signs of masculinity have been performed across a wide variety of contexts and genres - including literature, classical ballet, sports, rock music, films and computer games - from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures

Author : João Florêncio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351123402

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Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures by João Florêncio Pdf

This book analyses contemporary gay "pig" masculinities, which have emerged alongside antiretroviral therapies, online porn, and new sexualised patterns of recreational drug use, examining how they trouble modern European understandings of the male body, their ethics, and their political underpinnings. This is the first book to reflect on an increasingly visible new form of sexualised gay masculinity, and the first monograph to move debates on condomless sex amongst gay men beyond discourses of HIV and/or AIDS. It contributes to existing critical histories of sexuality, pornography and other sex media at a crucial juncture in the history of gay male sex cultures and the HIV epidemic. The book draws from fieldwork, interviews, archival research, visual analysis, philosophy, queer theory, and cultural studies, using empirical, critical, and speculative methodologies to better think gay "pig" masculinities across their material, affective, ethical and political dimensions, in a future-oriented, politically-inflected, reflection on what queer bodies may become. Spanning historical context to empirical and theoretical study, Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures will be of key interest to academics and students in sexuality studies, film, media, visual culture, cultural studies, and porn studies concerned with masculinities, sex and sexualities and their circulation across an array of media.

How to Watch Television, Second Edition

Author : Ethan Thompson,Jason Mittell
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781479898817

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How to Watch Television, Second Edition by Ethan Thompson,Jason Mittell Pdf

A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present We all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it “good” or “bad.” Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a television program to explore that program’s cultural significance, creative strategies, and its place in a broader social context. How to Watch Television, Second Edition brings together forty original essays—more than half of which are new to this edition—from today’s leading scholars on television culture, who write about the programs they care (and think) the most about. Each essay focuses on a single television show, demonstrating one way to read the program and, through it, our media culture. From fashioning blackness in Empire to representation in Orange is the New Black and from the role of the reboot in Gilmore Girls to the function of changing political atmospheres in Roseanne, these essays model how to practice media criticism in accessible language, providing critical insights through analysis—suggesting a way of looking at TV that students and interested viewers might emulate. The contributors discuss a wide range of television programs past and present, covering many formats and genres, spanning fiction and non-fiction, broadcast, streaming, and cable. Addressing shows from TV’s earliest days to contemporary online transformations of the medium, How to Watch Television, Second Edition is designed to engender classroom discussion among television critics of all backgrounds. To access additional essays from the first edition, visit the full list here bit.ly/HowToWatchTV2e.

Between Femininities

Author : Marnina Gonick
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791486344

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Between Femininities by Marnina Gonick Pdf

Arguing for a recognition of the contradictory and ambivalent identifications that both attract and repel those who live the social category "girl," Marnina Gonick analyzes the discourses and practices defining female sexuality, embodiment, relationship to self and other, material culture, use of social space, and cultural-political agency and power. Based on a school-community project involving collaborative production of a video which tells the stories of several fictional girl characters, Gonick examines the contradictory and textured structure of the discourses available to girls through which their identities are negotiated. Woven throughout the book is the integral concern with the way in which ethnographic writing as a discursive practice is also implicated in the production and signification of social identities for girls.

Yes Means Yes!

Author : Jaclyn Friedman,Jessica Valenti
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781580058995

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Yes Means Yes! by Jaclyn Friedman,Jessica Valenti Pdf

This groundbreaking feminist classic dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. In the original edition, feminist, political, and activist writers alike presented their ideas for a paradigm shift from the "No Means No" model--and the result was the groundbreaking shift to today's affirmative consent model ("Yes Means Yes," as coined by this book). With a timely new introduction, refreshed cover, and the timeless contributions of authors from Kate Harding to Jill Filipovic, Yes Means Yes brings to the table a dazzling variety of perspectives and experiences focused on the theory that educating all people to value female sexuality and pleasure leads to viewing women differently, and ending rape. Yes Means Yes has radical and far-reaching effects: from teaching men to treat women as collaborators and not conquests, encouraging men and women that women can enjoy sex instead of being shamed for it, and ultimately, that our children can inherit a world where rape is rare and swiftly punished.

Shadows of Doubt

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Masculinity in motion pictures
ISBN : 0814334571

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Shadows of Doubt by Barry Keith Grant Pdf

Considers representations of masculine identity and sexuality in popular film across the work of several American directors and genres.

Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities

Author : Peter Rehberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Butt (Fan magazine)
ISBN : 1032044624

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Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities by Peter Rehberg Pdf

"Hipster Porn examines models of gay 'hipster' masculinity through the lens of the gay fanzine 'Butt'. The book reconstructs an important chapter of recent gay and queer history, in order to make sense of the cultural shifts of the last 20 years in the contemporary gay world. 'Butt' exemplifies the changing nature of gay contemporary masculinity as it marked the beginning of a new era of queer fanzines such as 'They Shoot Homos Don't They?', 'Kink', 'Kaiserin', and 'Meat' reflecting a specific cosmopolitan gay life style in the West of the 2000s. The new forms of masculinity and sexuality demanded new ways of thinking about gender and desire. Hipster Porn takes the aesthetics of Butt to find a way of critiquing and rearticulating key concepts from gender, queer and affect theory, and delivers new accounts of subjectivity and sociality as they apply to queer media culture. This book is suitable for researchers in gender studies, queer studies and masculinity studies, cultural studies, media studies and sociology"--

What a Girl Wants?

Author : Diane Negra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135253417

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What a Girl Wants? by Diane Negra Pdf

From domestic goddess to desperate housewife, What a Girl Wants? explores the importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture. Focusing on a diverse range of media forms, including film, TV, advertising and journalism, Diane Negra holds up a mirror to the contemporary female subject who finds herself centralized in commodity culture to a largely unprecedented degree at a time when Hollywood romantic comedies, chick-lit, and female-centred primetime TV dramas all compete for her attention and spending power. The models and anti-role models analyzed in the book include the chick flick heroines of princess films, makeover movies and time travel dramas, celebrity brides and bravura mothers, ‘Runaway Bride’ sensation Jennifer Wilbanks, the sex workers, flight attendants and nannies who maintain such a high profile in postfeminist popular culture, the authors of postfeminist panic literature on dating, marriage and motherhood and the domestic gurus who propound luxury lifestyling as a showcase for the ‘achieved’ female self.

Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities

Author : Jonathan A. Allan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000591200

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Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities by Jonathan A. Allan Pdf

Drawing on diverse examples from literature, film, memoirs, and popular culture, Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities analyses cultural representations of male infertility. Going beyond the biomedical and sociological towards interdisciplinary cultural studies, this book studies depictions of men’s infertility. It includes fictional representations alongside memoirs, newspaper articles, ethnographies and autoethnographies, and scientific reporting. Works under discussion range from twentieth-century novel Lady Chatterley's Lover to romantic comedy film Not Suitable For Children, and science fiction classic Mr Adam, as well as encompassing genres including blockbuster romance and memoir. Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities draws upon both sociological and popular culture research to trace how the discourse of cultural anxiety unfolds across disciplines. This engaging work will be of key interest to scholars of popular culture studies, gender and women’s studies (including queer and sexuality studies), critical studies of men and masculinities, cultural studies, and literary studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Shooting the Family

Author : Patricia Pisters,Wim Staat
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789053567500

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Shooting the Family by Patricia Pisters,Wim Staat Pdf

Shooting the Family, a collection of essays on the contemporary media landscape, explores ever-changing representations of family life on a global scale. The contributors argue that new recording technologies allows families an unusual kind of freedom—until now unknown—to define and respond to their own lives and memories. Recently released videos made by young émigrés as they discover new homelands and resolve conflicts with their parents, for example, reverberate alongside the dark portrayals of family life in the formal filmmaking of Ang Lee. This book will be a boon to scholars of film theory and media studies, as well as to anyone interested in the construction of the family in a postmodern world.

Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies

Author : Lucas Gottzén,Ulf Mellström,Tamara Shefer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351676281

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Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies by Lucas Gottzén,Ulf Mellström,Tamara Shefer Pdf

The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies provides a contemporary critical and scholarly overview of theorizing and research on masculinities as well as emerging ideas and areas of study that are likely to shape research and understanding of gender and men in the future. The forty-eight chapters of the handbook take an interdisciplinary approach to a range of topics on men and masculinities related to identity, sex, sexuality, culture, aesthetics, technology and pressing social issues. The handbook’s transnational lens acknowledges both the localities and global character of masculinity. A clear message in the book is the need for intersectional theorizing in dialogue with feminist, queer and sexuality studies in making sense of men and masculinities. Written in a clear and direct style, the handbook will appeal to students, teachers and researchers in the social sciences and humanities, as well as professionals, practitioners and activists.

Designing Virtual Worlds

Author : Richard A. Bartle
Publisher : New Riders
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0131018167

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Designing Virtual Worlds by Richard A. Bartle Pdf

This text provides a comprehensive treatment of virtual world design from one of its pioneers. It covers everything from MUDs to MOOs to MMORPGs, from text-based to graphical VWs.