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Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement since 1970
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This article is published in The Journal of American Culture.The article was published on 1997-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 236 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Feminism & Prime time.read more
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In defense of textual analysis
TL;DR: The authors argue that media texts present a distinctive discursive moment between encoding and decoding that asks for special scholarly engagement and argue that the narrative character of media content, its potential as a site of ideological negotiation and its impact as mediated reality necessitates interpretation in its own right.
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Eroticizing Men: Cultural Influences on Advertising and Male Objectification
TL;DR: In this paper, the model offered by Thomas Rochon is used to examine how ideas, activism, and changing American values have influenced advertiser practices as they relate to sexualized images of men in mainstream media.
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Ellen, Television, and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Visibility
TL;DR: The media treatment of the Ellen phenomenon was productive, in Foucault's sense, constructing a regulatory discourse that constrained the implications of gay visibility on commercial television by channeling it through a narrative of psychological autonomy, through television norms for representing homosexuality, and through an overarching strategy of personalization as discussed by the authors.
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Sex and the City and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the deregulation, commercialisation and proliferation of television into multiple channels have enabled a new form of sexualised address in which women's sexual desire is central, expressed through an ironic aesthetic which offers a "complicit critique" of women's lifestyle and their commodified relation to their bodies and identity.
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‘I just want to be me again!’ Beauty pageants, reality television and post-feminism
TL;DR: The authors examine the connections between the Miss America pageant and reality makeover television shows and argue that televised performances of gender have shifted focus from the intensely scripted, out-of-touch Miss America to reality-makeover shows that normalize cosmetic surgery as a means to become the "ideal" woman.
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In defense of textual analysis
TL;DR: The authors argue that media texts present a distinctive discursive moment between encoding and decoding that asks for special scholarly engagement and argue that the narrative character of media content, its potential as a site of ideological negotiation and its impact as mediated reality necessitates interpretation in its own right.
Journal ArticleDOI
Eroticizing Men: Cultural Influences on Advertising and Male Objectification
TL;DR: In this paper, the model offered by Thomas Rochon is used to examine how ideas, activism, and changing American values have influenced advertiser practices as they relate to sexualized images of men in mainstream media.
Journal ArticleDOI
Ellen, Television, and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Visibility
TL;DR: The media treatment of the Ellen phenomenon was productive, in Foucault's sense, constructing a regulatory discourse that constrained the implications of gay visibility on commercial television by channeling it through a narrative of psychological autonomy, through television norms for representing homosexuality, and through an overarching strategy of personalization as discussed by the authors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Sex and the City and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the deregulation, commercialisation and proliferation of television into multiple channels have enabled a new form of sexualised address in which women's sexual desire is central, expressed through an ironic aesthetic which offers a "complicit critique" of women's lifestyle and their commodified relation to their bodies and identity.
Journal ArticleDOI
‘I just want to be me again!’ Beauty pageants, reality television and post-feminism
TL;DR: The authors examine the connections between the Miss America pageant and reality makeover television shows and argue that televised performances of gender have shifted focus from the intensely scripted, out-of-touch Miss America to reality-makeover shows that normalize cosmetic surgery as a means to become the "ideal" woman.