Mediated Eros: Sexual Scripts Within and Across Cultures

by Miglena M. Sternadori

Overview

This book makes a unique contribution to the field of media studies by analyzing the perpetuation of sexual scripts through news articles, films, TV shows, lifestyle magazines, advertisements, and other forms of popular mediated culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433129230
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	07/29/2015
Pages:	279
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Miglena M. Sternadori (PhD, University of Missouri) is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Electronic Media at Texas Tech University. She has published in Feminist Media Studies, Journal of Media Psychology, Women’s Studies in Communication, Newspaper Research Journal, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Atlantic Journal of Communication, Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Media Report to Women, and Journal of Media Education.

Table of Contents

Contents: What’s «Okay» in Bed? Identifying and Comparing Sexual Scripts in Media Content – Constructivist Theoretical Underpinnings: Sexual Scripts and Media Frames – Look-Sees, Lysol, and Baseball: Heterosexual Scripts in American Popular Culture – Sex as an Existential Journey: Heterosexual Scripts in European Popular Culture – What’s Same-Sex Sex Like? Popular Imagination of Gay and Lesbian Sexuality – Not Loud Enough, Too Loud: Gender and Heterosexuality Construction in Sex Advice – Kinksters, Swingers, and Other Weirdos: Media Depictions of Alternative Sexualities – Just What the Doctor Ordered: The Scientification of Sex and Sexual Dysfunction – Too Young, Too Old: The Procreative-Age Confinement of Socially Tolerable Sexuality.