TY  - BOOK
AU  - Galician,Mary-Lou
AU  - Merskin,Debra L.
AU  - Galician,Mary-Lou
TI  - Critical thinking about Sex, love, and romance in the mass media: media literacy applications 
SN  - 0805856161:
AV  - HQ801 .C7397 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Mahwah, N.J.
PB  - Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Sex in mass media
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Love in mass media
KW  - Media literacy
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Critical thinking
KW  - Mass media
N1  - A companion to Mary-Lou Galician's Sex, love & romance in the mass media. 2004; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; "Dis-illusioning" as discovery: the research basis and media literacy applications of Dr. FUN's Mass Media Love Quiz© and Dr. Galician's Prescriptions©; Mary-Lou Galician --; PART I. ATTRACTION --; Cyberdating success stories and the mythic narrative of living "happlily-ever-after with the one"; Sharon R. Mazzarella --; Brewing romance: the romantic fantasy theme of the Taster's Choice "couple" advertising campaign; Olaf Werder --; Promoting easy sex without genuine intimacy: Maxim and Cosmopolitan cover lines and cover images; Sammye Johnson --; What's love got to do with it? Mode readers expose and perpetuate mediated myths of romance; Julie E. Ferris --; PART II. HEGEMONY --; Write romance: Zora Neale Hurston's love prescription in Their eyes were watching God; Meta G. Carstarphen --; Interracial love on television: what's taboo still and what's not; Sharon Bramlett-Solomon --; Jennifer Lopez and a hollywood Latina romance film: mythic motifs in Maid in Manhattan; Diana I. Rios; Xae Alicia Reyes --; Myths of sex, love, and romance of older women in Golden Girls; Jo Anna Grant; Heather L. Hundley --; "Love will steer the stars" and other improbable feats: media myths in popular love songs; Anne Bader --; Power, romance, and the "lone male hero": deciphering the double standard in The Da Vinci Code; Christine Scodari; Rhonda Trust --; Gender equity stereotypes or prescriptions? Subtexts of the stairway scenes in the romantic films of Helen Hunt; David Natharius --; PART III. CONFLICT --; Taming Brian: sex, love, and romance in Queer as Folk; R. Anthony Slagle; Gust A. Yep --; Myths of romantic conflict in the television situation comedy; Aileen L.S. Buslig; Anthony M. Ocaña --; 'Til politics do us part: the political romance in Hollywood cinema; Jeanne Lynn Hall --; "Five total strangers, with nothing in common": using Galician's seven-step dis-illusioning directions to think critically about The Breakfast Club; Jennifer Hays --; Cue the lights and music: how cinematic devices contribute to the perpetuation of romantic myths in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge; Amber Hutchins --; Carpe Diem: relational scripts and "seizing the day" in the Hollywood romantic comedy; Laura L. Winn --; Gangster of love? Tony Soprano's assault on romantic myths; Ron Leone; Wendy Chapman Peek --; Remakes to remember: romantic myths in remade films and their original counterparts; Jennifer J. Asenas --; PART IV. COMPLETION --; "Must marry TV": the role of the heterosexual imaginary in The Bachelor; Andrea M. McClanahan --; "Real" love myths and magnified media effects of The Bachelorette; Lisa M. Glebatis --; The "Reality" of reality television wedding programs; Erika Engstrom --; Unrealistic potrayals of sex, love, and romance in popular wedding films; Kevin A. Johnson --; The agony or the ecstacy? Perceptions of Valentine's Day; Deborah Shelley --; Appendix; Resource guide to Sex, love, and romance in the mass media: some additional publications, films, television shows, songs, and web sites; Debra L. Merskin
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