Gender, Sexuality, and Media (Readings & Viewings)

Michael Mario Albrecht

Gender, Sexuality, and Media

Fall, 2012, Eckerd College

List of Readings and Viewings

Abel, Sue. “Postfeminism Meets Hegemonic Masculinities: Young People Read the ‘Knowing Wink’ in Advertising. The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media. Ed. Karen Ross. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Print.

Boys Don’t Cry. Dir. Kimberly Peirce. Fox Searchlight Pictures, 1999. Film.

Braun, Virginia. “‘The Women are Doing it For Themselves’: The Rhetoric of Choice and Agency around Female Genital ‘Cosmetic Surgery.’” Australian Feminist Studies 24.60 (2009): 233-249. Web.

Bridget Jones’s Diary. Dir. Sharon Maguire. Universal Pictures, 2001. Film.

Brokeback Mountain. Dir. Ang Lee. Good Machine, 2005. Film.

Brunner, Laura A. K. “‘How Big is Big Enough?’: Steve, Big, and Phallic Masculinity in Sex and the City.” Feminist Media Studies 10.1 (2010): 87-98. Web.

Butler, Judith.  Gender Trouble:  Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.  New York:  Routledge, 1990. Print.

The Codes of Gender. Dir. Sut Jhally. Media Education Foundation, 2010. Film.

Craine, James and Stuart Aitken. “Street Fighting: Placing the Crisis of Masculinity in David Fincher’s Fight Club.” GeoJournal 59.4 (2004): 289-296. Web.

Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious. Dir. Manny Rodriguez. Levity Productions, 2007. Film.

Dault, Meredith Suzanne. “The Last Triangle: Sex, Money and the Politics of Pubic Hair.” MA Thesis. Queens University, 2001. Web.

Douglas, Susan J. The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild. New York: St. Martins, 2010. Print.

Egan, R. Danielle and Gail Hawkes.  “Girls, Sexuality, and the Strange Carnalities of Advertisements.”  Australian Feminist Studies 23.57 (2008):  307-322. Web.

Escudero-Alías, Maite. “Ethics, Authorship, and the Representation of Drag Kings in Contemporary US Popular Culture.” The Journal of Popular Culture 44.2 (2011): 256-73. Web.

Female Trouble. Dir. John Waters. Dreamland, 1974. Film.

Fight Club Dir. David Fincher. Fox 2000 Pictures, 1999. Film.

Finley, Nancy J.  “Skating Femininity:  Gender Maneuvering in Women’s Roller Derby.”  Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 39.4 (2010):  359-387. 

Foucault, Michel.  The History of Sexuality.  Vol. 1:  An Introduction.  Trans. Robert Hurley.  New York:  Parthenon Press, 1978. Print.

Franco, Judith.  “Extreme Makeover:  The Politics of Gender, Class, and Cultural Identity.”  Television & New Media 9.6 (2008):  471-486. Web.

Gee, Sarah and Steve J. Jackson. “Leisure Corporations, Beer Brand Culture, and the Crisis of Masculinity: Speight’s ‘Southern Man’ Advertising Campaign.” Leisure Studies 31.1 (2012): 83-102. Web.

Gies, Lieve. “Stars Behaving Badly.” Feminist Media Studies 11.3 (2011): 347-61. Web.

Gregory, Georgina. “Transgender Tribute Bands and the Subversion of Male Rites of Passage through the Performance of Heavy Metal Music.” Journal for Cultural Research. 2012. Forthcoming.

Hahner, Leslie and Scott Varda. “Modesty and Feminisms: Conversations on Aesthetics and Resistance.” Feminist Formations 24.3 (2012): Pages TBA. [Forthcoming]

Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Dir. John Cameron Mitchell. Killer Films, 2001. Film.

Hell on Wheels. Dir. Bob Ray. CrashCam Films, 2007.

Hibberd, Lynne. “Fucking Vito: Masculinity and Sexuality in The Sopranos.” The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media. Ed. Karen Ross. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Print.

Horn, Katrin. “Camping With the Stars: Queer Performativity, Pop Intertexuality, and Camp in the Pop Art of Lady Gaga.” Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 11 (2010). Web.

Johnson, Ann. “The Subtleties of Blatant Sexism.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4.2 (2007): 166-83. Web.

Jones, Meredith. “Media Bodies and Screen-Births: Cosmetic Surgery Reality Television. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 22.4 (2008): 515-24.

McRobbie, Angela. The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2009. Print.

Meyers, Erin. “Gossip Blogs and ‘Baby Bumps’: The New Visual Spectacle of Female Celebrity in Gossip Meida.” The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media. Ed. Karen Ross. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Print.

My Penis and Everyone Else’s. Dir. Lawrence Barraclough. Firecracker Films, 2007. Film.

Oates, Thomas P.  “The Erotic Gaze in the NFL Draft.”  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4.1 (2007):  74-90.

Palmer-Mehta. “Men Behaving Badly: Mediocre Masculinity and The Man Show.” Journal of Popular Culture 42.6 (2009): 1053-72. Film.

The Perfect Vagina.  Dir. Heather Leach. North One Television, 2008. Film.

Petersen, Anne Helen. “That Teenage Feeling.” Feminist Media Studies 12.1 (2012): 51-67. Web.

Pitcher, Karen C.  “The Staging of Agency in Girls Gone Wild.”  Critical Studies in Media Communication 23.3 (2006):  200-218. Web.

Shifman, Limor and Dafna Lemish. “‘Mars and Venus’ in Virtual Space: Post-Feminist Humor and the Internet.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 28.3 (2011): 253-73.

Shugart, Helene. “Consuming Passions:  “Educating Desire” in Brokeback Mountain.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 28.3 (2001): 173-92. Web.

Sontag, Susan. “Notes on Camp.” Against Interpretation and other Essays. New York: Picador Press, 2001. Print.

Starsuckers. Dir. Chris Atkins. S2S Productions, 2009.

Twilight. Dir. Catherine Hardwicke. Summit Entertainment, 2008. Film.

“The Virgin Daughters.” Cutting Edge. Dir. Jane Treays. Grenada Television, 2008. Web.

Young Adult. Dir. Jason Reitman. Paramount Pictures, 2011. Film.

Critical Disney, Spring 2012 (Reading List)

Michael Mario Albrecht

Critical Disney: Kids, Corporations, and Media Culture

Spring, 2012, University of New Hampshire

Reading List

Baudrillard, Jean. “The Procession of the Simulacra.” Simulacra and Simulation. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Brockus, Susan. “Where Magic Lives™: Disney’s Cultivation, Co-Creation, and Control of America’s Cultural Objects.” Popular Communication 2.4 (2004): 191-211.

Budd, Mike and Max H. Kirsch.  Rethinking Disney:  Private Control, Public Dimensions.  Middletown, CT:  Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

Darmanin, Godwin. “From Second Life and Ski Dubai to the Embracing of Hyperreality and Pseudo Events – Reflections on Baudrillard, Eco, Boorstin, and Borgmann.” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 8.2 (2001).  <http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol8_2/v8-2-darmanian.html>.

Do Rozario, Rebecca-Anne C.  “The Princess and the Magic Kingdom:  Beyond Nostalgia, The Function of the Disney Princess.”  Women’s Studies in Communication 27.1 (2004):  34-59.

Drotner, Kirsten.  “Disney Discourses, or Mundane Globalization.”  European Culture and the Media. Eds. Ib Bondebjerg and Peter Golding.  Portland, OR: Intellect Books, 2004.

Eco, Umberto. “Travels in Hyperreality.” Travels in Hyperreality Essays Trans. William Weaver. New York: 1986.

Fung, Anthony and Mickey Lee.  “Localizing a Global Amusement Park: Hong Kong Disneyland.”  Continuum:  Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 23.2 (2009): 197-208.

Gregory, Sarita McCoy.  “Disney’s Second Line:  New Orleans, Racial Masquerade, and the Reproduction of Whiteness in The Princess and the Frog.”  Journal of African American Studies 14 (2010):  432-49.

Gillam, Ken and Sharron Wooden.  “Post-Princess Models of Gender:  The New Man in Disney/Pixar.”  Journal of Popular Film and Television 36.1 (2008):  2-8.

Giroux, Henry A. and Grace Pollock.  The Mouse that Roared:  Disney and the End of the Innocence, Updated and Expanded Edition.  New York:  Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. 

Hoerrner, “Gender Roles in Disney Films:  Analyzing Behaviors from Snow White to Simba.”  Women’s Studies in Communication 19.2 (1996):  213-229.

Houston, H. Rika and Laurie A. Meamber. “Consuming the ‘World’: Reflexivity, Aesthetics, and Authenticity at Disney World’s EPCOT Center.” Consumption Markets and Culture 14.2 (2011): 177-191.

Jeffords, Susan.  “The Curse of Masculinity:  Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.” From Mouse to Mermaid:  The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Eds. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1995.  

Lacroix, Celeste.  “Images of Animated Others:  The Orientalization of Disney’s Cartoon Heroines From The Little Mermaid to The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”  Popular Communication 2.4 (2004): 213-29.

Lam, Sunny S.K. “‘Global Corporate Cultural Capital’ as a Drag on Glocalization:  Disneyland’s Promotion of the Halloween Festival.” Media, Culture, & Society 32.4 (2010): 631-48.

Levine, Elana.  “Fractured Fairy Tales and Fragmented Markets:  Disney’s Weddings of a Lifetime and the Cultural Politics of Media Conglomeration.”  Television & New Media 6.1 (2005):  71-88.

McLeod, Kembrew. “Confessions of an Intellectual (Property): Danger Mouse, Mickey Mouse, Sonny Bono, and My Long and Winding Path as a Copyright Activist-Academic.” Popular Music and Society 28.1 (2005): 75-93.

Meamber, Laurie A. “Disney and the Presentation of Colonial America.” Consumption Markets and Culture 14.2 (2011): 125-44.

Miller, Susan and Greg Rode. “The Movie You See, The Movie You Don’t:   How Disney Do’s That Old Time Derision. From Mouse to Mermaid:  The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Eds. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1995.  

Sells, Laura. “‘Where Do the Mermaids Stand?’:  Voice and Body in The Little Mermaid.” From Mouse to Mermaid:  The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Eds. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1995.  

Sweeny, Meghan. “‘Where Happily Ever After Happens Every Day’: Disney’s Official Princess Website and the Commodification of Play.” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 3.2 (2011): 66-87.

Sun, Chyng Feng and Erica Sharrer.  “Staying True to Disney:  College Students’ Resistance to Criticism of The Little Mermaid.”  The Communication Review 7 (2004):  35-55.

Telotte, J.P. “Song of the South.”  Quarterly Review of Film and Video 27.5 (2010):  392-94.

Wasko, Janet. “Corporate Disney in Action.” Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy. Malden MA: Polity Press, 2001.

Media and Consumer Culture, Fall 2011 (Reading List)

Michael Mario Albrecht

Media and Consumer Culture

Fall 2011, University of New Hampshire

Andrejevic, Mark.  “Surveillance in the Digital Enclosure.”  The Communication Review 10 (2007): 295-317. 

Benjamin, Walter.  “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”  Marxists.org.  Acessed 30 Aug 2011.  http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

Foucault, Michel.  Discipline and Punish:  The Birth of the Prison.  Trans. Alan Sheridan.  New York:  Vintage Books, 1977.

Fuchs, Christian.  “Web 2.0, Prosumption, and Surveillance.”  Surveillance and Society 8.3 (2011): 288-309.

Giroux, Henry A.  “Private Satisfactions and Public Disorders: Fight Club, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Masculine Violence.”  JAC 21.1 (2001):  1-31.

Gladwell, Malcolm.  “The Coolhunt.”  The Consumer Society Reader.  Eds. Juliet B. Schor and Doublas B. Holt.  New York:  The New Press, 2000.

Haiven, Max.  “Privatized Resistance:  AdBusters and the Culture of Neoliberalism.”  The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 29 (2007): 85-110. 

Hausbeck, Kathryn and Barbra G. Brents.  “McDonaldization of the Sex Industries?:  The Business of Sex.”  McDonaldization:  The Reader, 3^rd ed.  Ed. George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press 2010.

Jurgenson, Nathan.  “The De-McDonaldization of the Internet.”  McDonaldization:  The Reader, 3^rd ed.  Ed. George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press 2010.

Lasn, Kalle.  Culture Jam:  How to Reverse American's Suicidal Consumer Binge -- And Why We Must.  New York:  Harper Paperbacks, 2000.

Lears, Jackson.  Fables of Abundance:  A Cultural History of Advertising in America.  New York:  Basic Books, 1994.

Lyon, David.  Surveillance Society:  Monitoring Everyday Life.  Philadelphia:  Open University Press, 2001.

Marx, Karl.  “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secrets Thereof.”  Marxists.org.  Accessed 30 Aug 2011.  http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4.

McAllister, Matthew P.  “Consumer Culture and New Media: Commodity Fetishism in the Digital Era.” Media Perspectives for the 21^st Century.  Ed. Stylianos Papathanassopoulos.  New York:  Routledge, 2011. 

Meyrowitz, Joshua.  “We Liked to Watch:  Television as Progenitor of the Surveillance Society.”  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 625.1 (32-48).

Monaghan, Lee F.  “McDonaldizing Men’s Bodies?:  Slimming, Associated (Ir)Rationalities and Resistances.”  Body and Society 13.2 (2007): 67-93.

Ritzer, George.  The McDonaldization of Society 6.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Pine Forge Press, 2011. 

Ritzer, George and Nathan Jurgenson.  “Production, Consumption, Prosumption:  The Nature of Capitalism in the Age of the Digital ‘Prosumer.’” Journal of Consumer Culture 10.1 (2010): 13-36.

Sandlin, “‘Mixing Pop (Culture) and Politics’:  Cultural Resistance, Culture Jamming, and Anti-Consumption Activism as Critical Public Pedagogy.”  Curriculum Inquiry 38.3 (2008): 323-350.

Schor, Juliet.  “The New Politics of Consumptions:  Why Americans Want So Much More than They Need.”  Boston Review.  Summer, 1999:  1-26.

Schwartz, Barry.  “The Tyranny of Choice.”  Scientific American.  April 2004:  71-75.

Taylor, Betsy and Dave Tilford.  “Why Consumption Matters.”  The Consumer Society Reader.  Eds. Juliet B. Schor and Doublas B. Holt.  New York:  The New Press, 2000.

Waetjen, Jarrod and Timothy A. Gibson.  “Harry Potter and the Commodity Fetish:  Activating Consumer Readings in the Journey from Text to Commercial Intertext.”  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4.1 (2007):  3-26.

Waldman, Steven.  “The Tyranny of Choice.”  The New Republic.  27 January, 1992:  22-25.

Williamson, Judith.  Decoding Advertisements:  Ideas in Progress.  London:  Marion Boyars Publishers, 1994.

Willis, Susan.  A Primer for Daily Life.  New York:  Routledge, 1991.