Gender Race and Class in Media: A Critical Reader

About this book

Gender Race and Class in Media provides students a comprehensive and critical introduction to media studies by encouraging them to analyze their own media experiences and interests. The book explores some of the most important forms of todays popular cultureincluding the Internet social media television films music and advertisingin three distinct but related areas of investigation: the political economy of production textual analysis and audience response. Multidisciplinary issues of power related to gender race and class are integrated into a wide range of articles examining the economic and cultural implications of mass media as institutions. Reflecting the rapid evolution of the field the Sixth Edition includes 18 new readings that enhance the richness sophistication and diversity that characterizes contemporary media scholarship. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources including a test bank and editable chapter-specific PowerPoint slides.