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  • Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms

    Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities

    by Ellie Tomsett ...
    Series series Library of Gender and Popular Culture
    What are the barriers to women's participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era?In this book, Ellie Tomsett considers how the origins of stand-up comedy still impact on current live comedy production, and explains how the contemporary stand-up scene continues to reflect wider societal stereotypes about the capabilities of women.Using primary data collected ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Working Women on Screen

    Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism

    Edited by Ellie Tomsett, Nathalie Weidhase, Poppy Wilde ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism critically examines screen media representations of women’s participation in the contemporary labour market. The edited collection brings together contributions on Aesthetic Labour; Power, Politics, and Neoliberal Industries; and Sex, Sexuality, and Relationships.Within the context of fourth wave feminism, there has been a new ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

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  • Gender and the Media

    by Rosalind Gill ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Media, Gender and Identity

    An Introduction

    by David Gauntlett ...
    Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities?The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • After the Death of Childhood

    by David Buckingham ...
    What will be the fate of childhood in the twenty-first century? Will children increasingly be living 'media childhoods', dominated by the electronic screen? Will their growing access to adult media help to abolish the distinctions between childhood and adulthood? Or will the advent of new media technologies widen the gaps between the generations still further?In this book, David Buckingham ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Gender and Popular Culture

    by Katie Milestone, Anneke Meyer ...
    This fully updated second edition of Gender and Popular Culture examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society. It draws on a wide range of cultural forms – including popular music, social media, television and magazines – to illustrate how femininity and masculinity are produced, represented, used and consumed.Blending primary and secondary ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Children and Young People’s Cultural Worlds

    Edited by Sarah Bragg, Mary Jane Kehily ...
    Series series Open University Childhood
    Children and young people in the early twenty-first century encounter, and creatively adapt to, a range of cultural phenomena in an increasingly mediated, commercialised and globalised world. Children and young people's cultural worlds offers a critical introduction to childhood in the digital age. Childhood innocence is a concept that often underpins the way adults think about children and new ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • From entertainment to citizenship

    Politics and popular culture

    by John Street, Sanna Inthorn, Martin Scott ...
    From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars – like Bono and Bob Geldof – who claim to represent them. It explores how young people connect the pleasures of popular culture to the world at large. For them, popular culture is not simply a matter of escapism and entertainment, but of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Reading Beyond the Book

    The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture

    by Danielle Fuller, DeNel Rehberg Sedo ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events and the contemporary meanings of reading in the UK, USA, and Canada based on original interviews and ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Television for Women

    New Directions

    Edited by Rachel Moseley, Helen Wheatley, Helen Wood ...
    Television for Women brings together emerging and established scholars to reconsider the question of ‘television for women’. In the context of the 2000s, when the potential meanings of both terms have expanded and changed so significantly, in what ways might the concept of programming, addressed explicitly to a group identified by gender still matter?The essays in this collection take the existing ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth

    Education and Inequality in an Era of Austerity

    by Dr Heather Mendick, Dr Aisha Ahmad, Dr Kim Allen, Dr Laura Harvey ...
    Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youthuses the lens of celebrity to explore how young people think about their futures under austerity. Based on an interdisciplinary study, the book offers fresh insights into contemporary youth aspirations and inequalities. It helps us to understand young people's transitions into adulthood at a time of socio-economic 'crisis'.Drawing on original data, the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Media Audiences

    Is Anybody Watching?

    by Sue Turnbull ...
    Series series Key Concerns in Media Studies
    The relationship between the media and its audiences has always been a topic of research and debate. Media Audiences provides a comprehensive and succinct overview of the field of audience studies from the time of the printing press to an era characterized by online digital connectivity. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book offers a wealth of personal insight into the experience ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD