Gender race and class in media:

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Sage, 2011Edition: 3rd edDescription: xvi, 672pISBN:

9781412974417

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DDC classification:

302.230973 GEN

Summary: From gender issues in Desperate Housewives, to race in Ugly Betty, gender biases in video games, and portrayals of the American family in Extreme Makeover, to analyzes of new genres like fandom and social media - no other book is so successful in engaging students in critical media scholarship. By encouraging students to critically analyze those media they already interact with for pleasure, and by editing the articles, Gail Dines and Jean Humez are able to make sophisticated concepts and theories accessible and interesting to undergraduate students.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	IIM Kashipur	302.230973 GEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3142

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From gender issues in Desperate Housewives, to race in Ugly Betty, gender biases in video games, and portrayals of the American family in Extreme Makeover, to analyzes of new genres like fandom and social media - no other book is so successful in engaging students in critical media scholarship. By encouraging students to critically analyze those media they already interact with for pleasure, and by editing the articles, Gail Dines and Jean Humez are able to make sophisticated concepts and theories accessible and interesting to undergraduate students.

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