Beschreibung:
Andre Cavalcante is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia, USA. He specializes in the study of media audiences and his work focuses on LGBTQ issues and everyday life. He is the author of the forthcoming book Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life.
This book provides a cutting-edge theoretical and methodological framework for understanding media reception from a feminist communication and media studies perspective. This book was first published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.
Introduction - Feminist reception studies in a post-audience age: returning to audiences and everyday life 1. Lemony Liz and likable Leslie: audience understandings of feminism, comedy, and gender in women-led television comedies 2. Orange Is the New Black: the popularization of lesbian sexuality and heterosexual modes of viewing 3. A queerly normalized Western lesbian imaginary: online Chinese fans' gossip about the Danish fashion model 4. Leave a comment: mommyblogs and the everyday struggle to reclaim parenthood 5. MirrorCameraRoom: the gendered multi-(in)stabilities of the selfie 6. Fifty shades of consent?