Feminist Media Criticism and Feminist Media Practices

S. Craig Watkins and Rana A. Emerson
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S. Craig Watkins: Departments of Radio-Television-Film and Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin
Rana A. Emerson: Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2000, vol. 571, issue 1, 151-166

Abstract: This article explores four thematic areas in feminist media criticism. First, it considers how gender informs norms and values that pattern industry production practices and conventions. Next, it explores how feminist criticism has influenced one of the emergent areas in media scholarship: reception studies. This particular subgenre of media studies examines how audiences actively engage the mediascape around them. Third, the focus shifts to the rising influence of black feminist criticism, which has identified many of the tensions within feminism and also has pointed toward new modes of media criticism and practice. Fourth, the article examines how feminism has informed the study of masculinity. The final section of the article identifies and briefly discusses two areas that will forge new directions in feminist media studies: the burgeoning sex industry and globalization.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1177/000271620057100111

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