Gramsci and Media Literacy

This book offers a series of analyses of contemporary media texts that illustrate how Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony can inform approaches to media literacy.

Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking about TV and the Movies offers a series of contemporary media analyses that use Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explore how dominant ideologies in media delivery, historical storytelling, and gender in today’s mass media environment become the commonsense viewpoints that maintain power structures in civil society. Through a media literacy approach, case studies of ideological delivery through television and film illustrate why Gramscian media theory serves as a valuable tool for revealing the many ways hegemonic thought operates in the media sphere and in everyday life, and they offer hope for counterhegemonic understandings.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: A Gramscian Approach to Media Literacy

Chapter 3: Gramsci, Film, TV, and Cable Streaming: Toward Counterhegemony

Chapter 4: Hegemonic Masculinity in the Mass Media

Chapter 5: The Gendered Endgame: Marvel’s New Man

Chapter 6: Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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