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57 ‘Advertising, Magazine Culture, and the “New Man”’
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Sean Nixon
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- General Introduction xiii
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PART ONE: STUDYING THE MEDIA
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SECTION 1 FOUNDATIONS
- Introduction 1
- 1 ‘Culture Industry Reconsidered’ 15
- 2 ‘The Medium is the Message’ 22
- 3 ‘Encoding/Decoding’ 28
- 4 ‘The Power of the Image’ 39
- 5 ‘The Public Sphere’ 45
- 6 ‘The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media’ 52
- 7 ‘Truth and Power’ 63
- 8 ‘The Practice of Everyday Life’ 76
- 9 ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’ 89
- 10 ‘Some Properties of Fields’ 94
- Further Reading 100
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Section 2: The Media and the Public Sphere
- Introduction 105
- 11 ‘Introduction to Orientalism’ 111
- 12 ‘Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism’s Other’ 124
- 13 ‘The Globalization of Communication’ 138
- 14 ‘An Introduction to the Information Age’ 152
- 15 “Not Only, But Also”: Mixedness and Media’ 165
- Further Reading 181
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Section 3: Representation
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3.1 Textual Structures
- Introduction 187
- 16 ‘Programming as Sequence or Flow’ 192
- 17 ‘Broadcast TV Narration’ 199
- 18 ‘The Role of Stereotypes’ 206
- 19 ‘Genre, Representation and Soap Opera’ 213
- 20 ‘Rhetoric, Play, Performance’ 224
- 21 ‘Database as a Symbolic Form’ 236
- Further Reading 248
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3.2 The Politics of Representation
- Introduction 251
- 22 ‘Fictions and Ideologies: The Case of Situation Comedy’ 255
- 23 ‘New Ethnicities’ 269
- 24 ‘Skin Flicks on the Racial Border: Pornography, Exploitation, and Interracial Lust’ 277
- 25 ‘Between the Blues and the Blues Dance: Some Soundscapes of the Black Atlantic’ 291
- 26 ‘Queering Home or Domesticating Deviance? Interrogating Gay Domesticity Through Lifestyle Television’ 302
- Further Reading 314
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3.3 Feminist Readings
- Introduction 319
- 27 ‘Survival Skills and Daydreams’ 323
- 28 ‘Reading the Slender Body’ 330
- 29 ‘The Role of Soap Opera in the Development of Feminist Television Scholarship’ 341
- 30 ‘Post-Feminism and Popular Culture’ 350
- 31 ‘Playing the Game: Young Girls Performing Femininity in Video Game Play’ 362
- Further Reading 373
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Section 4: Audiences
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4.1 ‘Effects’ Debates
- Introduction 379
- 32 ‘On the Social Effects of Television’ 384
- 33 ‘The Television Audience: A Revised Perspective’ 389
- 34 ‘A Sociology of Media Power: Key Issues in Audience Reception Research’ 405
- 35 ‘From Bad Research to Good – A Guide for the Perplexed’ 418
- Further Reading 430
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4.2 The Politics of Reading
- Introduction 435
- 36 ‘Reading the Romance’ 440
- 37 ‘Wanted: Audiences. On the Politics of Empirical Audience Studies’ 451
- 38 ‘The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators’ 462
- 39 ‘There’s Something Queer Here’ 471
- 40 ‘Banal Transnationalism: The Difference that Television Makes’ 481
- Further Reading 492
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Section 5: Media and Everyday Life
- Introduction 497
- 41 ‘Behind Closed Doors: Video Recorders in the Home’ 502
- 42 ‘Media, Meaning and Everyday Life’ 514
- 43 ‘What’s “Home” Got to Do with It? Contradictory Dynamics in the Domestication of Technology and the Dislocation of Domesticity’ 523
- 44 ‘No Dead Air! The iPod and the Culture of Mobile Listening’ 536
- Further Reading 551
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PART TWO: CASE STUDIES
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Section 6: ‘Reality’ Television
- Introduction 557
- 45 ‘Reality TV and Social Perversion’ 561
- 46 ‘The Rise of Reality TV’ 573
- 47 ‘Public and Private Bodies’ 588
- 48 ‘Celebrity, Social Mobility and the Future of Reality TV’ 598
- 49 ‘Teaching Us to Fake It: The Ritualized Norms of Television’s “Reality” Games’ 610
- Further Reading 624
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Section 7: News and Documentary
- Introduction 629
- 50 ‘News Values and News Production’ 635
- ‘The Social Production of News’ 648
- 52 ‘Politicizing the Personal: Women’s Voices in British Television Documentaries’ 656
- 53 ‘News Media and the Globalization of the Public Sphere’ 671
- 54 ‘Bad News from Israel’ 690
- 55 ‘Picturizing Science: The Science Documentary as Multimedia Spectacle’ 706
- Further Reading 721
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Section 8: Advertising and Promotional Culture
- Introduction 725
- 56 ‘Advertising: The Magic System’ 730
- 57 ‘Advertising, Magazine Culture, and the “New Man”’ 736
- 58 ‘Soft-soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising’ 747
- 59 ‘The Promotional Condition of Contemporary Culture’ 763
- 60 ‘Social Communication in Advertising’ 772
- Further Reading 786
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Section 9: New Technologies, New Media?
- Introduction 791
- 61 ‘Cyberspace and the World we Live in’ 796
- 62 ‘The Work of Being Watched: Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure’ 812
- 63 ‘The MP3 as Cultural Artifact’ 825
- 64 ‘Beyond Anonymity, or Future Directions for Internet Identity Research’ 839
- 65 ‘Cultural Studies and New Media’ 854
- Further Reading 870
- Acknowledgements 872
- Index of Names 879
- Subject Index 882
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- General Introduction xiii
-
PART ONE: STUDYING THE MEDIA
-
SECTION 1 FOUNDATIONS
- Introduction 1
- 1 ‘Culture Industry Reconsidered’ 15
- 2 ‘The Medium is the Message’ 22
- 3 ‘Encoding/Decoding’ 28
- 4 ‘The Power of the Image’ 39
- 5 ‘The Public Sphere’ 45
- 6 ‘The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media’ 52
- 7 ‘Truth and Power’ 63
- 8 ‘The Practice of Everyday Life’ 76
- 9 ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’ 89
- 10 ‘Some Properties of Fields’ 94
- Further Reading 100
-
Section 2: The Media and the Public Sphere
- Introduction 105
- 11 ‘Introduction to Orientalism’ 111
- 12 ‘Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism’s Other’ 124
- 13 ‘The Globalization of Communication’ 138
- 14 ‘An Introduction to the Information Age’ 152
- 15 “Not Only, But Also”: Mixedness and Media’ 165
- Further Reading 181
-
Section 3: Representation
-
3.1 Textual Structures
- Introduction 187
- 16 ‘Programming as Sequence or Flow’ 192
- 17 ‘Broadcast TV Narration’ 199
- 18 ‘The Role of Stereotypes’ 206
- 19 ‘Genre, Representation and Soap Opera’ 213
- 20 ‘Rhetoric, Play, Performance’ 224
- 21 ‘Database as a Symbolic Form’ 236
- Further Reading 248
-
3.2 The Politics of Representation
- Introduction 251
- 22 ‘Fictions and Ideologies: The Case of Situation Comedy’ 255
- 23 ‘New Ethnicities’ 269
- 24 ‘Skin Flicks on the Racial Border: Pornography, Exploitation, and Interracial Lust’ 277
- 25 ‘Between the Blues and the Blues Dance: Some Soundscapes of the Black Atlantic’ 291
- 26 ‘Queering Home or Domesticating Deviance? Interrogating Gay Domesticity Through Lifestyle Television’ 302
- Further Reading 314
-
3.3 Feminist Readings
- Introduction 319
- 27 ‘Survival Skills and Daydreams’ 323
- 28 ‘Reading the Slender Body’ 330
- 29 ‘The Role of Soap Opera in the Development of Feminist Television Scholarship’ 341
- 30 ‘Post-Feminism and Popular Culture’ 350
- 31 ‘Playing the Game: Young Girls Performing Femininity in Video Game Play’ 362
- Further Reading 373
-
Section 4: Audiences
-
4.1 ‘Effects’ Debates
- Introduction 379
- 32 ‘On the Social Effects of Television’ 384
- 33 ‘The Television Audience: A Revised Perspective’ 389
- 34 ‘A Sociology of Media Power: Key Issues in Audience Reception Research’ 405
- 35 ‘From Bad Research to Good – A Guide for the Perplexed’ 418
- Further Reading 430
-
4.2 The Politics of Reading
- Introduction 435
- 36 ‘Reading the Romance’ 440
- 37 ‘Wanted: Audiences. On the Politics of Empirical Audience Studies’ 451
- 38 ‘The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators’ 462
- 39 ‘There’s Something Queer Here’ 471
- 40 ‘Banal Transnationalism: The Difference that Television Makes’ 481
- Further Reading 492
-
Section 5: Media and Everyday Life
- Introduction 497
- 41 ‘Behind Closed Doors: Video Recorders in the Home’ 502
- 42 ‘Media, Meaning and Everyday Life’ 514
- 43 ‘What’s “Home” Got to Do with It? Contradictory Dynamics in the Domestication of Technology and the Dislocation of Domesticity’ 523
- 44 ‘No Dead Air! The iPod and the Culture of Mobile Listening’ 536
- Further Reading 551
-
PART TWO: CASE STUDIES
-
Section 6: ‘Reality’ Television
- Introduction 557
- 45 ‘Reality TV and Social Perversion’ 561
- 46 ‘The Rise of Reality TV’ 573
- 47 ‘Public and Private Bodies’ 588
- 48 ‘Celebrity, Social Mobility and the Future of Reality TV’ 598
- 49 ‘Teaching Us to Fake It: The Ritualized Norms of Television’s “Reality” Games’ 610
- Further Reading 624
-
Section 7: News and Documentary
- Introduction 629
- 50 ‘News Values and News Production’ 635
- ‘The Social Production of News’ 648
- 52 ‘Politicizing the Personal: Women’s Voices in British Television Documentaries’ 656
- 53 ‘News Media and the Globalization of the Public Sphere’ 671
- 54 ‘Bad News from Israel’ 690
- 55 ‘Picturizing Science: The Science Documentary as Multimedia Spectacle’ 706
- Further Reading 721
-
Section 8: Advertising and Promotional Culture
- Introduction 725
- 56 ‘Advertising: The Magic System’ 730
- 57 ‘Advertising, Magazine Culture, and the “New Man”’ 736
- 58 ‘Soft-soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising’ 747
- 59 ‘The Promotional Condition of Contemporary Culture’ 763
- 60 ‘Social Communication in Advertising’ 772
- Further Reading 786
-
Section 9: New Technologies, New Media?
- Introduction 791
- 61 ‘Cyberspace and the World we Live in’ 796
- 62 ‘The Work of Being Watched: Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure’ 812
- 63 ‘The MP3 as Cultural Artifact’ 825
- 64 ‘Beyond Anonymity, or Future Directions for Internet Identity Research’ 839
- 65 ‘Cultural Studies and New Media’ 854
- Further Reading 870
- Acknowledgements 872
- Index of Names 879
- Subject Index 882