false 1174593 0 0 3237270 0745619150 9780745619156 2 <![CDATA[Gender and the Media]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3237270.Gender_and_the_Media 2.50 4 Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, "Gender and the Media" offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates. Eschewing a straightforwardly positive or negative assessment the book explores the contradictory character of contemporary gender representations, where confident expressions of girl power sit alongside reports of epidemic levels of anorexia among young women, moral panics about the impact on men of idealized representations of the 'six-pack', but near silence about the pervasive re-sexualization of women's bodies, along with a growing use of irony and playfulness that render critique extremely difficult.The book looks in depth at five areas of media - talk shows, magazines, news, advertising, and contemporary screen and paperback romances - to examine how representations of women and men are changing in the twenty-first century, partly in response to feminist, queer and anti-racist critique. "Gender and the Media" is also concerned with the theoretical tools available for analysing representations.

A range of approaches from semiotics to postcolonial theory are discussed, and Gill asks how useful notions such as objectification, backlash, and positive images are for making sense of gender in today's Western media. Finally, "Gender and the Media" also raises questions about cultural politics - namely, what forms of critique and intervention are effective at a moment when ironic quotation marks seem to protect much media content from criticism and when much media content - from Sex and the City to revenge adverts - can be labelled postfeminist.This is a book that will be of particular interest to students and scholars in gender and media studies, as well as those in sociology and cultural studies more generally. ]]> 1174593 2.50 4 2 2006 3237309 155130337X 9781551303376 0 <![CDATA[Le Francais Dans le Village Global: Manuel de Lecture Et Decriture]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3237309.Le_Francais_Dans_le_Village_Global_Manuel_de_Lecture_Et_Decriture 0.0 0 1174594 0.0 0 0 1174593 2.50 4 2 2008 3237306 1896266681 9781896266688 0 <![CDATA[But Everybody Is Dreaming =: Pero Todos Sue~nan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3237306.But_Everybody_Is_Dreaming_Pero_Todos_Sue_nan 0.0 0 1174593 2.50 4 2 2004 3237307 0335217338 9780335217335 0 <![CDATA[Discourse Analysis]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3237307.Discourse_Analysis 0.0 0 Quickly and easily grasp the fundamentals of discourse analysis

Discourse analysis is a key theoretical and methodological approach used by scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences. There has been a dramatic surge of interest in this approach since the early 1990s and it has become increasingly important and influential in disciplines as diverse as linguistics, geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, gender studies and history. This book is an introductory text for students who are new to discourse analysis. It locates the approach among different theoretical and methodological traditions, sets out the key principles of discourse analysis, and considers the debates and dilemmas raised by the use of this approach. It is clearly written and illustrated with vivid and up to date examples and case studies, targeted at an international audience.

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