Gender, race, and class in media: a critical reader

Part I. A cultural studies approach to media: theory. Cultural studies, multiculturalism, and media culture / Douglas Kellner

The meaning of memory: family, class, and ethnicity in early network television programs / George Lipsitz

The economics of the media industry / David P. Croteau, William D. Hoynes, and Stefania Milan

Hegemony / James Lull

The internet's unholy marriage to capitalism / John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney

Extreme makeover: home edition: an American fairy tale / Gareth Palmer

Women read the romance: the interaction of text and context / Janice Radway

Star Trek rerun, reread, rewritten: fan writing as textual poaching / Henry Jenkins III

Watching television without pity: the productivity of online fans / Mark Andrejevic

Reconsidering resistance and incorporation / Richard Butsch

Part II. Representations of gender, race, and class. The whites of their eyes: racist ideologies and the media / Stuart Hall

"Global motherhood": the transnational intimacies of white femininity / Raka Shome

Pornographic eroticism and sexual grotesquerie in representations of African American sportswomen / James McKay and Helen Johnson

Hetero Barbie? / Mary F. Rogers

Transgender transitions: sex/gender binaries in the digital age / Kay Siebler

The "rich bitch": class and gender on the Real Housewives of New York City / Michael J. Lee and Leigh Moscowitz

Big talkers: Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio, and the defiant reassertion of white male authority / Jackson Katz

Part III. Reading media texts critically. Pretending to be "Postracial": the spectacularization of race in reality TV's Survivor / Emily M. Drew

Television's 'news' feminism: prime-time representations of women and victimization / Lisa M. Cuklanz and Sujata Moorti

More than baby mamas: black mothers and hip-hop feminism / Marlo David

Political culture jamming: the dissident humor of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart / Jamie Warner

Educating The Simpsons: teaching queer representations in contemporary visual media / Gilad Padva

Resisting, reiterating, and dancing through: the swinging closet doors of Ellen DeGenere's televised personalities / Candace Moore

"Sexy like a girl and horny like a boy": contemporary gay "western" narratives about gay Asian men / Chong-suk Han

When in Rome: heterosexism, homophobia and sports talk radio / David Nylund

Part IV. Advertising and consumer culture. Image-based culture: advertising and popular culture / Sut Jhally

The new politics of consumption: why Americans want so much more than they need / Juliet Schor

Inventing the Cosmo girl: class identity and girl-style American dreams / Laurie Ouellette

Sex, lies, and advertising / Gloria Steinem

Supersexualize me! Advertising and the "midriffs" / Rosalind Gill

Branding "real" social change in Dove's campaign for real beauty / Dara Persis Murray

Nothing less than perfect: female celebrity, ageing, and hyperscrutiny in the gossip industry / Kristy Fairclough

To see and be seen: celebrity practice on Twitter / Alive Marwick and danah boyd

How to "use your Olympian": the paradox of athlete authenticity and commercialization in the contemporary Olympic games / Momin Rahman and Sean Lockwood

Mapping commercial intertextuality: HBO's True Blood / Jonathan Hardy

Part V. Representing sexualities. That teenage feeling: Twilight, fantasy, and feminist readers / Anne Helen Petersen

Deadly love: images of dating violence in the "Twilight Saga" / Victoria E. Collins and Dianne C. Carmody

The white man's burden: Gonzo pornography and the construction of black masculinity / Gail Dines

The pornography of everyday life / Jane Caputi

There are bitches and hoes / Tricia Rose

The limitations of the discourse of norms: gay visibility and degrees of transgression / Jay Clarkson

Sex lives in Second Life / Robert Alan Brookey and Kristopher L. Cannon

Queering Queer Eye: the stability of gay identity confronts the liminality of trans embodiment / E. Tristan Booth

Part VI. Growing up with contemporary media. The future of childhood in the global television market / Dafna Lemish

Growing up female in a celebrity-based pop culture/ Gail Dines

La Princesa Plastica: hegemonic and oppositional representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie / Karen Goldman

Monarchs, monsters, and multiculturalism: Disney's menu for global hierarchy / Lee Artz

Constructing the "new ethnicities": media, sexuality and diaspora identity in the lives of South Asian immigrant girls / Meenakshi Gigi Durham

HIV on TV: conversations with young gay men / Kathleen P. Farrell

Video games and machine dreams of domination / John Sanbonmatsu

Strategic simulations and our past: the bias of computer games in the presentation of history / Kevin Schut

"You play like a girl!" cross-gender competition and the uneven playing field / Elena Bertozzi

Part VII. Is TV for real? Six decades of social class in American television sitcoms / Richard Butsch

Marketing "reality" to the world: Survivor, post-Fordism, and reality television / Chris Jordan

Critiquing reality-based televisual Black fatherhood: a critical analysis of Run's House and Snoop Dogg's Father Hood / Debra C. Smith

A shot at half-exposure: Asian Americans in reality TV shows / Grace Wang

"Take responsibility for yourself": Judge Judy and the neoliberal citizen / Laurie Ouellette

Television and the domestication of cosmetic surgery / Sue Tait

Drama is the cure for gossip: television's turn to theatricality in a time of media transition / Abigail De Kosnik

Free TV: file-sharing and the value of television / Michael Z. Newman

Part VIII. Interactivity, virtual community, and fandom. Pop cosmopolitanism: mapping cultural flows in an age of convergence / Henry Jenkins III

The political economy of privacy on Facebook / Christian Fuchs

Showtime thinks, therefore I am: the corporate construction of "The Lesbian" on Sho.Com's The L Word site / Kelly Kessler

Reading the romance of fan cultural production: music videos of a television lesbian couple / Eve Ng

"Don't hate the player, hate the game": The racialization of labor in World of Warcraft / Lisa Nakamura

Accidental activists: fan activism in the soap opera community / Melissa C. Scardaville

Fan activists and the politics of race in The Last Airbender / Lori Kido Lopez

GimpGirl grows up: women with disabilities rethinking, redefining, and reclaiming community / Jennifer Cole, Jason Nolan, Yukari Seko, Katherine Mancuso, and Alejandra Ospina

The Latino cyber-moral panic process in the United States / Nadia Yamel Flores-Yeffal, Guadalupe Vidales, and April Plemons

How it feels to be viral me: affective labor and Asian American YouTube performance / Christine Bacareza Balance.