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release name: Sex.Love.and.Romance.in.the.Mass.Media.Analysis.and.Criticism.of.Unrealistic.Portrayals.and.Their.influence.eBook-EEn

release date: 07.03.07 ?size: 14.5 MB

author: Mary-Lou Galician

title: Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media: Analysis and ?

Criticims of Unrealistic Portrayals

ISBN: 0805848320 ?FORMAT: PDF ?category/genre: Sex

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This accessible yet research-based text offers

both foundational theories and practical

applications of analysis and criticism of mass

media portrayals of sex, love, and romance in a

wide variety of mass media, from entertainment

to advertising to news. The multidisciplinary

methodological perspective comes out of a media

literacy approach and embraces a variety of

traditions along the quantitative-qualitative

continuum. Focused on portrayals of male-female

coupleship, the book is centered around the 12

major myths and stereotypes of Galician's Dr.

FUN!'s Mass Media Love Quiz? each of which has

a corresponding Dr. Galician Prescription(R)

that encapsulates healthy strategies--rarely

found in the mass media--to counteract that

myth or stereotype. Readers learn how to

identify, illustrate, deconstruct, evaluate,

and reframe the mass media's mythic and

stereotypic portrayals of sex, love, and

romance. They also learn how to use their own

formal critical evaluations to clarify their

own values and--as media consumers or mass

communication creators--to share their

insights with others. Thus, the learning

objectives encompass all three major

educational domains: cognitive, affective,

and behavioral.

Part I of this book covers the five foundations:

*myths and stereotypes of love and coupleship;

*models of realistic and constructive love and

coupleship;

*mass media storytelling approaches, techniques,

and devices;

*research and theories of mass media effects; and

*strategies and skills of media literacy.

Part II is devoted to exploring the myths and

stereotypes identified in the Quiz. Following

several brief case studies and a summary ofrelated

research and commentary, each chapter focuses on

analyses and criticisms of portrayals of sex, love,

and romance in the content of news and advertising,

as well as entertainment using Galician's Seven-

Step Dis-illusioning Directions. Each chapter

concludes with a "Dis-illusion Digest."

While critical of unrealistic portrayals and the

damage they can cause unsuspecting media consumers,

Galician--a media literacy advocate--is not anti-

media. Rather, her goal is to empower consumers to

use these portrayals with more awareness of their

possible consequences, to resist adopting them as

models for actual behavior, and to consciously

reframe them into more realistic, productive

scenarios. This unique text is an engaging classroom

resource for media literacy, media and relationships,

and media and society coursework.

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