Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xix
Editor’s Introduction xx
Part I Mediated Women 1
1 The Geography of Women and Media Scholarship 3 Carolyn M. Byerly
2 Chilean Women in Changing Times: Media Images and Social Understandings 20 Claudia Bucciferro
3 The Girls of Parliament: A Historical Analysis of the Press Coverage of Female Politicians in Bulgaria 35 Elza Ibroscheva and Maria Stover
4 Gossip Blogs and ‘Baby Bumps’: The New Visual Spectacle of Female Celebrity in Gossip Media 53 Erin Meyers
5 Fanfiction and Webnovelas: The Digital Reading and Writing of Brazilian Adolescent Girls 71 Ilana Eleá
6 Virtually Blonde: Blonde Jokes in the Global Age and Postfeminist Discourse 88 Limor Shifman and Dafna Lemish
Part II Rugged Masculinity and Other Fables 105
7 Men, Masculinities, and the Cave Man 107 Jeffery P. Dennis
8 Rhetorical Masculinity: Authoritative Utterance and the Male Protagonist 118 Stuart Price
9 Conan the Blueprint: The Construction of Masculine Prototypes in Genre Films 135 Guido Ipsen
10 Save the Cheerleader, Save the Males: Resurgent Protective Paternalism in Popular Film and Television after 9/11 157 Sarah Godfrey and Hannah Hamad
11 Fucking Vito: Masculinity and Sexuality in The Sopranos 174 Lynne Hibberd
12 Studio5ive.com: Selling Cosmetics to Men and Reconstructing Masculine Identity 189 Claire Harrison
Part III Queering the Pitch 205
13 No Hard Feelings: Reflexivity and Queer Affect in the New Media Landscape 207 Katherine Sender
14 The L Word: Producing Identities through Irony 226 Julie Scanlon
15 Andro- phobia?: When Gender Queer is too Queer for L Word Audiences 241 Rebecca Kern
16 Questioning Queer Audiences: Exploring Diversity in Lesbian and Gay Men’s Media Uses and Readings 260 Alexander Dhoest and Nele Simons
17 ‘In Touch’ with the Female Body: Cinema, Sport, and Lesbian Representability 277 Katharina Lindner
18 Why Doesn’t your Compass Work?: Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantasy Blockbusters, and Contemporary Queer Theory 294 Martin Fradley
19 Raised Voices: Homophobic Abuse as a Catalyst for Coming Out in US Teen Television Drama Series 313 Susan Berridge
20 Transmen on the Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses 326 Matthew Heinz
21 Transgendered Saints and Harlots: Reproduction of Popular Brazilian Transgender Stereotypes through Performance on Stage, on Screen, and in Everyday Life 344 Johannes Sjöberg
Part IV Women, Men, and Gender 363
22 Sex/Gender and the Media: From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond 365 Cynthia Carter
23 Colin Won’t Drink out of a Pink Cup 383 Barbara Mitra and Jenny Lewin- Jones
24 Postfeminism Meets Hegemonic Masculinities: Young People Read the ‘Knowing Wink’ in Advertising 401 Sue Abel
25 Communication as Commodification: Video Technology and the Gendered Gaze 419 Corinna Chong, Heather Molyneaux, and Hélène Fournier
26 Dutch Moroccan Girls Performing their Selves in Instant Messaging Spaces 436 Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi
Part V All about Sex 455
27 Sex and the Media 457 Feona Attwood
28 Deliciously Consumable: The Uses and Abuses of Irony in ‘Sex-Trafficking’ Campaign Films 470 Jane Arthurs
29 The Sex Inspectors: Self-help, Makeover, and Mediated Sex 487 Laura Harvey and Rosalind Gill
30 Enacting Bodies: Online Dating and New Media Practices 502 Begonya Enguix and Elisenda Ardévol
31 Gender and Sexuality in the Internet Era 516 Panayiota Tsatsou
32 Gay for Pay: The Internet and the Economics of Homosexual Desire 535 John Mercer
Index 552