{"product_id":"spectatorship-9781477313763","title":"Spectatorship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedia platforms continually evolve, but the issues surrounding media representations of gender and sexuality have persisted across decades. \u003ci\u003eSpectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpectatorship\u003c\/i\u003e 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 develo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays [in \u003ci\u003eSpectatorship\u003c\/i\u003e] are interesting and are chock full of the vitality of new academic engagement that remains the strength of the USC journal. * Film International *\u003cbr\u003eThe ability of \u003ci\u003eSpectatorship\u003c\/i\u003e’s contributors to touch on such a vast range of alternate subjectivities in its examination of representations of gender and sexuality across a broad media landscape is, undoubtably, its key strength...the volume does a stellar job showcasing a diverse range of perspectives on various related issues. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction. Gender, Sexuality, and Media: Audience and Spectatorship (Roxanne Samer and William Whittington)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1. Revisiting Film Subjects and the Pleasures of Cinema \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Feminine Discourse in Blackmail (Amy Lawrence)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Venus in Furs: Masoch, Deleuze, and the Films of von Sternberg (Gaylyn Studlar)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. “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 (Anna Everett)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Joe Dallesandro—A “Him” to the Gaze: Flesh, Heat, and Trash (Stephen Tropiano)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2. Speaking Up and Sounding Out \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Unheard Sexualities?: Queer Theory and the Soundtrack (Scott D. Paulin)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. The Articulation of Body and Space in Speak Body (Christie Milliken)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. “I Kinda Prefer to Be a Human Being”: Roseanne Barr and Defining Working-Class Feminism and Authorship (Melissa Williams)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Riot Grrrl: It’s Not Just Music, It’s Not Just Punk (Mary Celeste Kearney)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 3. Queering Media \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. Soap Slash: Gay Men Rewrite the World of Daytime Television Drama (Hollis Griffin)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. From Excess to Access: Televising the Subculture (Eric Freedman)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. Pronoun Trouble: The “Queerness” of Animation (Sean Griffin)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 4. Containment and Its Critiques \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12. Of Fleiss and Men: The Transgressions and Containment of a Hollywood Madam (Mary Celeste Kearney)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13. Out on Stage: LGBT Politics of Entertainment Award Shows (Raffi Sarkissian)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14. Lesbian Cop, Queer Killer: Leveraging Black Queer Women’s Sexuality on HBO’s The Wire (Jennifer DeClue)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 5. Fandom and Transmedia \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15. Resurrection of the Vampire and the Creation of Alternative Life: An Introduction to Dark Shadows Fan Culture (Harry M. Benshoff)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16. The Rumors Are True!: Gossip Girl and the Cooptation of the Cult Fan (Elena Bonomo)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17. The Trouble with Transmediation: Fandom’s Negotiation of Transmedia Storytelling Systems (Suzanne Scott)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867282518359,"sku":"9781477313763","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477313763.jpg?v=1722282581","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/spectatorship-9781477313763","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}