Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
Media critic Douglas deconstructs the ambiguous messages sent to American women via TV programs, popular music, advertising, and nightly news reporting over the last 40 years, and fathoms their influence on her own life and the lives of her contemporaries. Photos.
Media critic Douglas deconstructs the ambiguous messages sent to American women via TV programs, popular music, advertising, and nightly news reporting over the last 40 years, and fathoms their influence on her own life and the lives of her contemporaries. Photos.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780812925302 (0812925300)
ASIN: 812925300
Publish date: March 28th 1995
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Pages no: 349
Edition language: English
Picking it up to read in 2017, I quickly realize I have read this, lo, these many years ago. As I age it seems that everything reminds me of something similar in the past. I'm this case the thing it reminded me of was itself. It's still as good, but I don't feel like I need the refresher: I took the...
What a pleasure it would be if more theorists wrote like Douglas - I loved her smart, funny commentary on the influence mass media has exerted on female identity.