Gender, Politics & Mtv
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (949 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0877226938 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 258 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A significant moment in the history of feminist research in the field of communication. It should be seen as a guidepost tot he directions feminist work needs to take." —Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
"Save your money" according to A Customer. I was very disappointed in this book. It seems to me that the author of this book has no experience in writing whatsoever. She couldn't keep to the point and kept rambling on and on about things that were irrelevant to the main idea. I find her writing narcissistic and boring. I only gave this review 1 star because I was forced to. Otherwise I would've given this book 0 stars. Don't buy this book. You'll be very disappointed.. Uptown Girl said This is an insightful, well-written analysis of women in rock. It's a few years old but Lisa Lewis' book is still a really useful analysis of rock music and MTV, and the role gender plays. She makes good arguments about the masculinity of rock and how women artists (namely Lauper, Benatar, Tina Turner, and Madonna) were able to make inroads, in spite of that. It's theoretically sophisticated but accessible, because she directly applies complex theory to the work of these women artists. Read it if you want to understand rock music a lot better than you do now; the ideas still work today.
It shows that these artists have appropriated music video as a vehicle of feminist expression.. Examining the videos and careers of female musicians Pat Benatar, Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner, and Madonna, and their appeal to female audiences, this book challenges the idea that MTV presents only negative and sexist images of women