Media Messages
What Film, Television, and Popular Music Teach Us About Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
by Linda Holtzman, Leon Sharpe
2nd Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780765617576 |
| eText ISBN | 9781317464921 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2014 |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 558 |
Media Messages: What Film, Television, and Popular Music Teach Us About Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation, 2nd Edition, is a textbook that investigates how entertainment media influence social perceptions. The volume analyzes the ways television programs, feature films, and popular music contribute to widespread cultural myths and misunderstandings.
The text examines how individual personal histories combine with collective histories of oppression and liberation to generate cultural stereotypes. In addressing these dynamics, the work explores how personal engagement with mass culture shapes opportunities for individual and social freedom.
Integrated classroom activities and analytical exercises provide structured practice for examining media messages and reflecting on social issues.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Connections: Life, Knowledge, and Media
- • Personal Experience
- • Reconstructing Knowledge
- • The Process of Socialization
- • Entertainment Media
- • Chapter Summary
- • Glossary of Key Terms
- • Reflection, Summary, and Analysis
- • Bibliography
Chapter 2: Gender: In Pink and Blue and Vivid Color
- • Personal Experience and Gender
- • Reconstructing Knowledge and Gender
- • Gender and Entertainment Media
- • The Complexity of Gender Targeting
- • Gender Diversity and Social Power
- • Chapter Summary
- • Glossary of Key Terms
- • Reflection, Summary, and Analysis
- • Bibliography
Chapter 3: Is the United States a Classless Society?
- • Personal Experience and Class
- • Reconstructing Knowledge and Class
- • Early U.S. History
- • The Twentieth Century
- • The Twenty-First Century
- • Entertainment Media and Class
- • Chapter Summary
- • Glossary of Key Terms
- • Reflection, Summary, and Analysis
- • Bibliography
Chapter 4: Racing in America: Fact or Fiction?
- • Linda's Story
- • Leon's Story
- • Meeting at the Crossroads: How Our Stories Converge
- • The American Racial Discourse: Then and Now
- • Reconstructing Knowledge and Race
- • Stories of Race, Racism, and Resistance in the United States
- • Chapter Summary
- • Glossary of Key Terms
- • Reflection, Summary, and Analysis
- • Bibliography
Chapter 5: Stories of Race in Popular Culture
- • Entertainment Media and Race
- • American Indians in Entertainment Media
- • Asians and Pacific Islanders in Entertainment Media
- • Latinas/Latinos in Entertainment Media
- • African Americans in Entertainment Media
- • Chapter Summary
- • Glossary of Key Terms
- • Bibliography
Chapter 6: Sexual Orientation and the Fabrication of "Normal"
- • Personal Experience
- • Reconstructing Knowledge and Sexual Orientation
- • Terminology and Its Evolution
- • Theories and History of Sexual Orientation in the United States
- • Sexual Orientation in U.S. History
- • Religion and Sexual Orientation
- • Summary of Reconstructing Knowledge
- • Sexual Orientation and Entertainment Media
- • Chapter Summary
- • Glossary of Key Terms
- • Reflection, Summary, and Analysis
- • Bibliography
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