Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between
Title | Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between PDF eBook |
Author | CarrieLynn D. Reinhard |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2017-09-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1498539580 |
Current characters in children’s entertainment media illustrate a growing trend of representations that challenge or subvert traditional notions of gender and sexuality. From films to picture books to animated television series, children’s entertainment media around the world has consistently depicted stereotypically traditional gender roles and heterosexual relationships as the normal way that people act and engage with one another. Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media examines how this media ecology now includes a presence for nonheteronormative genders and sexualities. It considers representations of such identities in various media products (e.g., comic books, television shows, animated films, films, children’s literature) meant for children (e.g., toddlers to teenagers). The contributors seek to identify and understand characterizations that go beyond these traditional understandings of gender and sexuality. By doing so, they explore these nontraditional representations and consider what they say about the current state of children’s entertainment media, popular culture, and global acceptance of these gender identities and sexualities.
Convergent Wrestling
Title | Convergent Wrestling PDF eBook |
Author | CarrieLynn D. Reinhard |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 2019-03-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351233963 |
This book examines how the current era of "convergence" has affected, and is reflected in, the world of professional wrestling, which combines several different genres, including drama, action, comedy, horror, science fiction, and even romance. Professional wrestling’s business practices exist at the intersection of bottom-up fan-centric strategies and strict top-down corporate control. Meanwhile, the wrestlers themselves combine aspects of carnival hucksters, actors/actresses, comedians, superheroes, martial artists, or stuntmen, and the narratives consist of everything from social critique to geopolitical allegories, and from soap opera melodramas to stereotyped exploitation. Bringing together the latest scholarship in the field, Convergent Wrestling analyzes various texts, business practices, and fan activities to explore the commonalities that define professional wrestling and consider how it exists in today’s new media ecology. In addition, the book considers the professional wrestling industry from several different angles, from massive multinational conglomerate World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) to local indie federations. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in popular culture, media and cultural studies, and fan practices.
The Disney Princess Phenomenon
Title | The Disney Princess Phenomenon PDF eBook |
Author | Robyn Muir |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2023-06-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1529222117 |
The Disney Princesses are a billion-dollar industry, known and loved by children across the globe. Robyn Muir provides an exploratory and holistic examination of this worldwide commercial and cultural phenomenon in its key representations: films, merchandising and marketing, and park experiences. Muir highlights the messages and images of femininity found within the Disney Princess canon and provides a rigorous and innovative methodology for analysing gender in media. Including an in-depth examination of each princess film from the last 83 years, the book provides a lens through which to view and understand how Disney Princesses have contributed to the depiction of femininity within popular culture.
Coloring Into Existence
Title | Coloring Into Existence PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel Millán |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 2023-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1479816973 |
"Coloring into Existence traces the emergence of queer and trans of color children's picture books across North America (Canada, United States, and Mexico) from 1990 to 2020, analyzed through the hermeneutic of autofantasía, a literary intervention engaging authors, illustrators, publishers, and (mis)reading practices"--
Eating Fandom
Title | Eating Fandom PDF eBook |
Author | CarrieLynn D. Reinhard |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 2020-10-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000207005 |
This book considers the practices and techniques fans utilize to interact with different aspects and elements of food cultures. With attention to food cultures across nations, societies, cultures, and historical periods, the collected essays consider the rituals and values of fan communities as reflections of their food culture, whether in relation to particular foods or types of food, those who produce them, or representations of them. Presenting various theoretical and methodological approaches, the anthology brings together a series of empirical studies to examine the intersection of two fields of cultural practice and will appeal to sociologists, geographers and scholars of cultural studies with interests in fan studies and food cultures.
Monstrous Possibilities
Title | Monstrous Possibilities PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Howell |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2022-11-04 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3031128443 |
This book focuses on how the abject spectacle of the ‘monstrous feminine’ has been reimagined by recent and contemporary screen horrors focused on the desires and subjectivities of female monsters who, as anti-heroic protagonists of revisionist and reflexive texts, exemplify gendered possibility in altered cultures of 21st century screen production and reception. As Barbara Creed notes in a recent interview, the patriarchal stereotype of horror that she named ‘the monstrous-feminine’ has, decades later, ‘embarked on a life of her own’. Focused on this altered and renewed form of female monstrosity, this study engages with an international array of recent and contemporary screen entertainments, from arthouse and indie horror films by emergent female auteurs, to the franchised products of multimedia conglomerates, to 'quality' television horror, to the social media-based creations of horror fans working as ‘pro-sumers’. In this way, the monograph in its organisation and scope maps the converged and rapidly changing environment of 21st century screen cultures in order to situate the monstrous female anti-hero as one of its distinctive products.
Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media
Title | Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media PDF eBook |
Author | Malynnda Johnson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2021-04-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000377407 |
This volume examines the shift toward positive and more accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media, asking where these succeed and considering where more needs to be done. With studies that identify and analyze the characters, viewpoints, and experiences of mental illness across film and television, it considers the messages conveyed about mental illness and reflects on how the different texts reflect, reinforce, or challenge sociocultural notions regarding mental illness. Presenting chapters that explore a range of texts from film and television, covering a variety of mental health conditions, including autism, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and more, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and media studies, and mental health.