Janice Radway and the Politics of Reading Romance pieto/the ...

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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:46:39 GM

Janice Radway's book Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature is an important work in the ethnographic study of popular culture and more specifically the romance novel genre and its audience. ...

The Osbournes: Genre, Reality TV and the Domestication of Rock 'n ...

pietothemediaecologist

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:32:54 GM

This is an essay my wife and I wrote several years ago. It first appeared here and then was picked up by this textbook. It came out of two experiences. First our fascination with reality TV and secondly my disbelief at the manner in ...

Psychological Operations of the Consumer Culture

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hu, 10 Dec 2009 06:36:52 GM

Psychological operations- These operations include psychological warfare and in addition encompass those political, military, economic, and ideological actions planned and conducted to create in neutral or friendly foreign groups the ...

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Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:43:35 GM

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pieto the media ecologist: Georges Bataille The Dead Man pt. 2

pieto the media ecologist

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:08:00 GM

What gender is Bataille's excess? What sex? About Story of the Eye Roland Barthes says "the erotic theme...is never directly phallic." And Michel Leiris writes concerning the novel's erotic activity; "innumerable possible permutations ...

pieto the media ecologist: Daphne - Disruptor of the Gaze

pieto the media ecologist

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:07:00 GM

video. Daphne - Disruptor of the Gaze. This short clip from Billy Wilder's film Some Like It Hot (1959) illustrates some of the contradictions that exist within the male gaze in Classic Hollywood Cinema. We see the introduction of ...

the gendered politics of beer and attention

pieto the media ecologist

ue, 14 Apr 2009 01:31:00 GM

after years of drinking beer and watching beer commercials i think it is safe to say at the center of beer commercials, whether humorous or not, is the patriarchal spectacle of male control and mastery. ...

the whiteness of the teletubbies' sun

pieto the media ecologist

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:15:00 GM

this short clip from a popular children's television show entitled the teletubbies illustrates british film scholar richard dyer's thinking on whiteness . the opening sequence with this particular baby in the sun begins and ends every ...

marshall mcluhan interview

pieto the media ecologist

ue, 09 Jun 2009 13:38:00 GM

marshall mcluhan interview (1977) edward newman interviews mcluhan on news program speaking freely. newman asks mcluhan "why is the medium the message? why isn't the message the message?" mcluhan's answers, with very anti-televisual​ ...

Children as Horror Fans

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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:21:00 GM

An important work on children and television that comes out of the British cultural studies tradition is David Buckingham's Moving Images: Understanding Children's Emotional Responses to Television (1996). Buckingham interviewed 72 boys ...