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- catalog abstract ""This Book Investigates the Meanings behind the representations of women in popular culture through primarily qualitative textual analyses of films, television programs, the news, magazines, music videos, and advertising. The issues explored are: what mediated popular culture says about women and their roles in contemporary society; whether and how the mediated representation of women addresses real women's goals and potential; how the popular media negotiate the tension between cultural constraint and social changes within their portrayal of women; and whether women are still the victims of symbolic annihilation by the media."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11114303.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""This Book Investigates the Meanings behind the representations of women in popular culture through primarily qualitative textual analyses of films, television programs, the news, magazines, music videos, and advertising. The issues explored are: what mediated popular culture says about women and their roles in contemporary society; whether and how the mediated representation of women addresses real women's goals and potential; how the popular media negotiate the tension between cultural constraint and social changes within their portrayal of women; and whether women are still the victims of symbolic annihilation by the media."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "I. Introduction. Fracturing women / Marian Meyers. II. Reinforcing stereotypes. Messages to women on love and marriage from women's magazines / Susan H. Alexander -- Reader's digest on women : antifeminist articulations of "the second sex" / Shawny Anderson -- The pornography of everyday life / Jane Caputi -- Mammy goes to Las Vegas : Showgirls and the constancy of African-American female stereotypes / Carmen R. Gillespie -- Tales of difference : representations of American Indian women in popular film and television / S. Elizabeth Bird -- Who is the Puerto Rican woman and how is she? : shall Hollywood respond? / Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas -- From rags to riches : the story of class advancement in women's figure skating coverage / Bettina Fabos. III. Limit/ed/ing challenges. "More power!" : negotiating masculinity and femininity in Home improvement / Charlene Dellinger-Pate and Roger C. Aden -- "We are your neighbors" : Serving in silence and the simulated lesbian / Amy Villarejo -- Only a joke? : the standup comedy of women of color / Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte -- Madonna : transgression and reinscription / Carolyn Lea -- New York times coverage of Anita Hill as a female cipher / Linda Steiner.".
- catalog description "IV. Complexities and contradictions. The portrayal of women in television advertising / Carolyn Lin -- Gender, Melrose Place, and the Aaron Spelling legacy / Elayne Rapping -- Film noir, feminism, and the femme fatale : the hyper-sexed reality of Basic instinct / Tom Reichert and Charlene Melcher -- "Who talks like that?" : foregrounding stereotypes on The nanny / Barbara Wilinsky. IV. Representing progress. And she lived happily ever after-- : the Disney myth in the video age / Jill Birnie Henke and Diane Zimmerman Umble -- Las familias y las latinas : mediated representations of gender roles / Lisa A. Flores and Michelle A. Holling -- Immigrant inscriptions : redefining race and gender in Mississippi Masala / Anjali Ram -- Gettin' real love : Waiting to exhale and film representations of womanist identity / Meta G. Carstarphen -- News, feminism and the dialectics of gender relations / Carolyn M. Byerly.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 428 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Mediated women.".
- catalog identifier "1572732393".
- catalog identifier "1572732407 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Mediated women.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Hampton Press communication series. Political communication".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press,".
- catalog relation "Mediated women.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.4/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Culture in motion pictures.".
- catalog subject "HQ1421 .M43 1999".
- catalog subject "Women in mass media United States.".
- catalog subject "Women in mass media.".
- catalog subject "Women in motion pictures United States.".
- catalog subject "Women in motion pictures.".
- catalog subject "Women in popular culture United States.".
- catalog subject "Women on television United States.".
- catalog subject "Women on television.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Introduction. Fracturing women / Marian Meyers. II. Reinforcing stereotypes. Messages to women on love and marriage from women's magazines / Susan H. Alexander -- Reader's digest on women : antifeminist articulations of "the second sex" / Shawny Anderson -- The pornography of everyday life / Jane Caputi -- Mammy goes to Las Vegas : Showgirls and the constancy of African-American female stereotypes / Carmen R. Gillespie -- Tales of difference : representations of American Indian women in popular film and television / S. Elizabeth Bird -- Who is the Puerto Rican woman and how is she? : shall Hollywood respond? / Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas -- From rags to riches : the story of class advancement in women's figure skating coverage / Bettina Fabos. III. Limit/ed/ing challenges. "More power!" : negotiating masculinity and femininity in Home improvement / Charlene Dellinger-Pate and Roger C. Aden -- "We are your neighbors" : Serving in silence and the simulated lesbian / Amy Villarejo -- Only a joke? : the standup comedy of women of color / Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte -- Madonna : transgression and reinscription / Carolyn Lea -- New York times coverage of Anita Hill as a female cipher / Linda Steiner.".
- catalog tableOfContents "IV. Complexities and contradictions. The portrayal of women in television advertising / Carolyn Lin -- Gender, Melrose Place, and the Aaron Spelling legacy / Elayne Rapping -- Film noir, feminism, and the femme fatale : the hyper-sexed reality of Basic instinct / Tom Reichert and Charlene Melcher -- "Who talks like that?" : foregrounding stereotypes on The nanny / Barbara Wilinsky. IV. Representing progress. And she lived happily ever after-- : the Disney myth in the video age / Jill Birnie Henke and Diane Zimmerman Umble -- Las familias y las latinas : mediated representations of gender roles / Lisa A. Flores and Michelle A. Holling -- Immigrant inscriptions : redefining race and gender in Mississippi Masala / Anjali Ram -- Gettin' real love : Waiting to exhale and film representations of womanist identity / Meta G. Carstarphen -- News, feminism and the dialectics of gender relations / Carolyn M. Byerly.".
- catalog title "Mediated women : representations in popular culture / edited by Marian Meyers.".
- catalog type "text".