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Reading Into Cultural Studies
Revisits key texts central to the formation of cultural studies as a discipline and project.
The Dynasty Years
So Popualr
Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader
Covers the area of feminist media criticism. This edition discusses subjects including, alternative family structures, de-westernizing media studies, industry practices, "Sex and the City", Oprah, and "Buffy."
Hollywood Hype and Audiences
This book traces the circulation in Britain of three Hollywood films--Basic Instinct, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Natural Born Killers --from marketing and critical reception to consumption in cinemas and on video. It draws on economic discursive contexts and original audience research to trace how meanings, pleasures, and uses are derived from popular film. A significant intervention into methodological debates in film studies and a timely investigation of film culture, it focuses on key questions about genre, taste, sexual pleasure and screen violence.
Murder, She Wrote
Embark on a journey through the mysteries of Cabot Cove and beyond to learn why Murder, She Wrote remains a timeless classic.
Talking Trash
Absorbing, entertaining and keenly perceptive, Talking Trash illuminates the complex viewer response to daytime television talk shows and examines the cultural politics surrounding this wildly controversial popular phenomenon.
Building Bodies
Building Bodies is an exciting collection of articles that strive toward constructing theoretical models in which power, bodies, discourse, and subjectivity interact in a space we can call the "built" body, a dynamic, politicized, and biological site. Contributors discuss the complex relationship between body building and masculinity, between the built body and the racialized body, representations of women body builders in print and in film, and homoeroticism in body building. Linked by their focus on the sport and practice of body building, the authors in this volume challenge both the way their various disciplines (media studies, literary criticism, gender studies, film and sociology) have gone about studying bodies, and existing assumptions about the complex relationship between power, subjectivity, society, and flesh. Body building--in practice, in representation, and in the cultural imagination--serves as an launching point because the sport and practice provide ready challenges to existing assumptions about the "built" body.
Tabloid Culture
An examination of the rise of tabloid television and the political, cultural, and technological changes that have enabled its success.
Textual Poachers
An ethnographic study of communities of media fans, their interpretative strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices. Jenkins focuses on fans of popular TV programmes, including Star Trek and The Professionals.
Real To Reel
It is a known fact that, in India, more than one-sixth of women are hooked onto Indian television serials. Nowadays, these so-called serials are taking the place of Indian cinema. These shows have attracted a huge number of audiences towards itself, and are growing at an alarming rate. The mega serials broadcasted all across India depict an ideal woman who has been exploited, tortured and suffered for a long time and is shown as an epitome of self-righteousness. The present study was done with a view to ascertain the responses from men and women about Indian television mega serials, and to study the impact of these serials on them. Regarding the image and the portrayal of women shown in these serials, it can be said that women are mostly projected as housewives or a glamorous figure; each time any "womans issue" or "a woman's story" is presented, two archetypes tend to emerge. The stereotype is either that of a young, professional, beautiful super woman or of a relatively passive and traditional woman living mostly according to the rules set by her man.
