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WGST 210: Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Media (Revision 1) Report a Broken Link

WGST 210: Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Media introduces students to the important field of critical media studies with a focus on how gendered and sexual identities are represented in advertising, comics, popular film and television, social media, and transmedia franchises. It also considers engagement with media by viewers and fans.

Unit 1: Media Representation, Identity, and Reception

ChallengingMedia. (2012, August 24). Killing us softly 4—trailer (featuring Jean Kilbourne) [Video]. YouTube.
Coleman, R. (2008). The becoming of bodies: Girls, media effect, and body image. Feminist Media Studies, 8(2), 163–179. doi: 10.1080/14680770801980547
Cavalcante, A. (2018). Affect, emotion, and media audiences: The case of resilient reception. Media, Culture & Society, 40(8), 1186–1201. doi: 10.1177/0163443718781991

Unit 2: Miss Representation—Women in the Media

Bauwel, S. V. (2018). Invisible golden girls? Post-feminist discourses and female ageing bodies in contemporary television fiction. Feminist Media Studies, 18(1), 21–33. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1409969
Gomez, S. L., & McFarlane, M. D. (2017). “It’s (not) handled”: Race, gender, and refraction in Scandal. Feminist Media Studies, 17(3), 362–376. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2016.1218352
Garland, T. S., Phillips, N., & Vollum, S. (2018). Gender politics and The Walking Dead: Gendered violence and the reestablishment of patriarchy. Feminist Criminology, 13(1), 59–86. doi: 10.1177/1557085116635269
Moore, A. (2020). “Just how depraved is this town?”: An intersectional interrogation of feminist snaps, slut shaming, and sometimes sisterhood in Riverdale’s rape culture. Feminist Media Studies. Advanced online publication. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2020.1786428

Unit 3: Eye on the Guy—Masculinity in the Media

Albrecht, M. M. (2015). Mad Men and nostalgic masculinity. In Masculinity in contemporary quality television (pp. 47–64). Routledge. 
McMillan, S. M. (2020). Re-envisioning black masculinity in Luke Cage: From blaxploitation and comic books to Netflix. The Journal of Popular Culture, 53(2), 454–472. 
Salter, A., & Blodgett, B. (2017). Beauty and the geek: On-screen representations of geeks. In Toxic geek masculinity in media: Sexism, trolling, and identity policing (pp. 45–72). Palgrave Macmillan.
Hutchinson, R. (2017). Representing race and disability: Grand Theft Auto San Andreas as a whole text. In J. Malkowski & T. M. Russworm (Eds.), Gaming representation: Race, gender and sexuality in video games (pp. 164–178). Indiana University Press. 
Reinhard, C. D., & Miller, K. (2015). Men watching Sex and the City, My Little Pony, and Oklahoma: The interpretation of gender appropriateness in the reception of cross-gendered media products. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 12(1), 59–81. 

Unit 4: Queering the Media

Marwick, A., Gray, M. L., & Ananny, M. (2014). “Dolphins are just gay sharks”: Glee and the queer case of transmedia as text and object. Television & New Media, 15(7), 627–647. doi: 10.1177/1527476413478493
Cameron, K. (2018). Toxic regulation: From TV’s code of practices to #BuryYourGays. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 15(1), 1–14. 

Unit 5: Consumer Cultures

Murray, D. P. (2013). Branding “real” social change in Dove’s campaign for real beauty. Feminist Media Studies, 13(1), 83–101. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2011.647963
White, M. (2018). Beauty as an “act of political warfare”: Feminist makeup tutorials and masquerades on YouTube. WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 46(1 & 2), 139–156. 
Knudsen, G. H., & Andersen, L. P. (2020). Changing masculinity, one ad at a time. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 15(2), 63–78. doi: 10.16997/wpcc.382

Unit 6: Celebrity Cultures

Gil-Egui, G., Kern-Stone, R., & Forman, A. E. (2017). Till death do us part? Conversations with deceased celebrities through memorial pages on Facebook. Celebrity Studies, 8(2), 262–277. doi: 10.1080/19392397.2016.1259076
Duvall, S-S., & Heckemeyer, N. (2018). #BlackLivesMatter: Black celebrity hashtag activism and the discursive formation of a social movement. Celebrity Studies, 9(3), 391–408. doi: 10.1080/19392397.2018.1440247
Raun, T. (2018). Capitalizing intimacy: New subcultural forms of microcelebrity strategies and affective labour on YouTube. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 24(1), 99–113. doi: 10.1177/1354856517736983

Unit 7: Participatory Cultures

Busse, K. (2013). Geek hierarchies, boundary policing, and the gendering of the good fan. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 10(1), 73–91. 
Cicci, M. A. (2018). The invasion of Loki’s army? Comic culture’s increasing awareness of female fans. In M. A. Click & S. Scott (Eds.), The Routledge companion to media fandom (pp. 193–201). Routledge.
Warner, K. (2018). (Black female) fans strike back: The emergence of the Iris West defense squad. In M. A. Click & S. Scott (Eds.), The Routledge companion to media fandom (pp. 253–261). Routledge.
Kumar, S. (2021). “Carmilla” fandom as a lesbian community of feeling. Transformative Works and Cultures, 36. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.2007

Unit 8: Social Media and Selfie Culture

Vivienne, S. (2017). “I will not hate myself because you cannot accept me”: Problematizing empowerment and gender-diverse selfies. Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 15(2), 126–140. doi: 10.1080/15405702.2016.1269906
Caldeira, S. P., Van Bauwel, S., & De Ridder, S. (2018). A different point of view: Women's self-representation in Instagram's participatory artistic movements @girlgazeproject and @arthoecollective. Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 32(3), 26–43. doi: 10.1080/02560046.2018.1447592
Amundsen, R. (2021). “A male dominance kind of vibe”: Approaching unsolicited dick pics as sexism. New Media & Society, 23(6), 1465–1480. doi: 10.1177/1461444820907025
Enguix, B., & Gomez-Narvaez, E. (2018). Masculine bodies, selfies, and the (re)configurations of intimacy. Men and Masculinities, 21(1), 112–130. doi: 10.1177/1097184X17696168