Full Description
The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of the ways in which sex and sexualities are mediated in modern media and everyday life.
The 40 chapters in this volume offer a snapshot of the remarkable diversification of approaches and research within the field, bringing together a wide range of scholars and researchers from around the world and from different disciplinary backgrounds including cultural studies, education, history, media studies, sexuality studies and sociology.
The volume presents a broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives, as authors address a series of important questions that have consequences for current and future thinking in the field. Topics explored include post-feminism, masculinities, media industries, queer identities, video games, media activism, music videos, sexualisation, celebrities, sport, sex-advice books, pornography and erotica, and social and mobile media.
The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is an essential guide to the central ideas, concepts and debates currently shaping research in mediated sexualities and the connections between conceptions of sexual identity, bodies and media technologies.
Contents
Introduction Part I Representing Sexualities 1. The Normal Body on Display: Public Exhibitions of the Norma and Normman Statues 2. Asexualities and Media 3. Representing Trans Sexualities 4. Representing lesbians in film and television 5. Representing Gay Sexualities 6. Fifty Shades of Ambivalence: BDSM representation in Pop Culture 7. The Politics of Fluidity: Representing Bisexualities in 21st Century Screen Media 8. Heterosexual casual sex: from Free Love to Tinder 9. Representing Queer Sexualities Part II Sex Genres 10. Erotica 11. A History of Slash Sexualities: Debating Queer Sex, Gay Politics, and Media Fan Cultures 12. Erotic Manga: Boys' Love, Shonen-Ai, Yaoi and (MxM) Shotacon 13. Ways of Showing It: Feature and Gonzo in Mainstream Pornography 14. From the Scene, for the Scene! Alternative Pornographies in Contemporary US Production 15. 'Not On Public Display': The Art/Porn Debate 16. User-generated pornography: amateurs and the ambiguity of authenticity 17. Celebrity Sex Tapes 18. The media panic about teen sexting
