Spectatorship : : Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media / / ed. by William Whittington, Roxanne Samer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Amy, Lawrence,; Anna, Everett,; Bonomo, Elena,; Celeste Kearney, Mary,; Declue, Jennifer,; Freedman, Eric,; Gaylyn, Studlar,; Griffin, Hollis,; Griffin, Sean,; Harry M., Benshoff,; Mary Celeste, Kearney,; Milliken, Christie,; Paulin, Scott D.,; Samer, Roxanne,; Sarkissian, Raffi,; Scott, Suzanne,; Stephen, Tropiano,; William, Whittington,; Williams, Melissa,
• HerausgeberIn: Samer, Roxanne,; Whittington, William,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (283 p.)

Media platforms continually evolve, but the issues surrounding media representations of gender and sexuality have persisted across decades. Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism has published groundbreaking articles on gender and sexuality, including some that have become canonical in film studies, since the journal’s founding in 1982. This anthology collects seventeen key articles that will enable readers to revisit foundational concerns about gender in media and discover models of analysis that can be applied to the changing media world today. Spectatorship begins with articles that consider issues of spectatorship in film and television content and audience reception, noting how media studies has expanded as a field and demonstrating how theories of gender and sexuality have adapted to new media platforms. Subsequent articles show how new theories emerged from that initial scholarship, helping to develop the fields of fandom, transmedia, and queer theory. The most recent work in this volume is particularly timely, as the distinctions between media producers and media spectators grow more fluid and as the transformation of media structures and platforms prompts new understandings of gender, sexuality, and identification. Connecting contemporary approaches to media with critical conversations of the past, Spectatorship thus offers important points of historical and critical departure for discussion in both the classroom and the field.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Gender, Sexuality, and Media: Audience and Spectatorship -- PART I Revisiting Film Subjects and the Pleasures of Cinema -- ONE Feminine Discourse in Blackmail -- TWO Venus in Furs: Masoch, Deleuze, and the Films of von Sternberg -- THREE “You Don’t Know What It Is to Look White and Be Black”: The Black Press Mediates Race in the Classic Hollywood Studio System, 1930–1940 -- Joe Dallesandro—A “Him” to the Gaze: Flesh, Heat, and Trash -- PART II Speaking Up and Sounding Out 75 -- FIVE Unheard Sexualities?: Queer Theory and the Soundtrack -- SIX The Articulation of Body and Space in Speak Body -- SEVEN “I Kinda Prefer to Be a Human Being”: Roseanne Barr and Defining Working-Class Feminism and Authorship -- EIGHT Riot Grrrl: It’s Not Just Music, It’s Not Just Punk -- PART III Queering Media -- NINE Soap Slash: Gay Men Rewrite the World of Daytime Television Drama -- TEN From Excess to Access: Televising the Subculture -- ELEVEN Pronoun Trouble: The “Queerness” of Animation -- PART IV Containment and Its Critiques -- TWELVE Of Fleiss and Men: The Transgressions and Containment of a Hollywood Madam -- THIRTEEN Out on Stage: LGBT Politics of Entertainment Award Shows -- FOURTEEN Lesbian Cop, Queer Killer: Leveraging Black Queer Women’s Sexuality on HBO’s The Wire -- PART V Fandom and Transmedia -- FIFTEEN Resurrection of the Vampire and the Creation of Alternative Life: An Introduction to Dark Shadows Fan Culture -- SIXTEEN The Rumors Are True!: Gossip Girl and the Cooptation of the Cult Fan -- SEVENTEEN The Trouble with Transmediation: Fandom’s Negotiation of Transmedia Storytelling Systems -- Contributors -- Index