商品簡介
A book of media theory in accessible language, the basic claim of this volume is that contemporary media technology has made sex subject to the same pressures of mass-media conformity as any other public activity. However, the book is not about technology or cross-cultural views of sexuality. The author's focus is on sexual scripts, which are mass-media stereotypes about what European and American people are supposed to want, be, and do sexually. Chapters focus on media scripts of heterosexuality in the US, in Europe, of gay sexuality, of alternative (kinky) heterosexual sexualities, sexuality and medicine, sexuality and age, and how gender and heterosexuality stereotypes are reinforced in sex advice media. The discussion is largely limited to stereotypes involving the roles of white middle-class men, and the analysis is of forms of mass media that do not directly show people engaged in sex. The author is against the stereotypes she writes about, and particularly defines comic parodies of these stereotypes as examples of them. However, the book does not define any ways of depicting sexuality, particularly male sexuality, that are acceptable. The theory used here is constructivist. No images of the media analyzed in the text are included. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Miglena M. Sternadori (PhD, University of Missouri) is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Electronic Media at Texas Tech University. She has published in Feminist Media Studies, Journal of Media Psychology, Women’s Studies in Communication, Newspaper Research Journal, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Atlantic Journal of Communication, Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Media Report to Women, and Journal of Media Education.
