Through a Feminist Kaleidoscope: Critiquing Media, Power, and Gender Inequalities

Bachmann, Ingrid; Harp, Dustin; Loke, Jaime

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90838-0_1

Cited by 12 publications

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“…First, the roles that women play in College GameDay is significant, as scholars have discussed the prescribed role of women in sports in such contexts. Antunovic and Whiteside (2018) note that although women in sports are often celebrated individually, "as a group they are subject to a system that still denies them legitimacy, grants access only to those who meet certain aesthetic standards, and constructs individual and divisive hierarchies among women along the lines of class, sexuality, and race" (p. 112). For instance, many scholars have described the objectification and sexualization of female sports anchors.…”

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“Dabo Wears Male Rompers”: Examining Expressions of Hegemonic Masculinity and Identity in ESPN’s College GameDay

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2022

Communication & Sport

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It has long been held that sport functions as a site of identity and belonging. Identity is also a key element that lays the framework for elite sport and social gathering as well as fan identification with teams and athletic figureheads (athletes and coaches) associated with their favored team. Sports fans often exercise identity in the communal bonding experiences of sport, including watching and attending games and other sports programming in groups. Outside of sporting events themselves, perhaps the most prominent sport-centric community and identity-building spectacle is ESPN's "College GameDay." First aired in 1987 as a rundown of college football scores and commentary, the popular show is now known for its in-depth analysis of high-stakes football match-ups, predictions of game outcomes, celebrity guest pickers who select the team they believe will win during the morning show, and the quirky signs made by fans who strive to be televised or featured on GameDay’s social media platforms. I argue that these popular elements of the show offer fans the opportunity to enact and express identities of hegemonic masculinity in widespread and potentially problematic ways.

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“Dabo Wears Male Rompers”: Examining Expressions of Hegemonic Masculinity and Identity in ESPN’s College GameDay

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2022

Communication & Sport

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“…Institutional sexism and lack of equality are widespread and persistent systemic challenges in the media in the UK and US as noted by many (please see for example Ingrid Bachmann, Dustin Harp and Jamie Loke 2018, Boyle 2019a, and Kantor and Twohey 2019. This not less so in a screen industry where the majority of Directors, Producers, and Heads of Departments as well as the technical crew are male and predominantly white (Shelley Cobb, Linda Ruth Williams, and Natalie Wreyford 2015, Stephen Follows, Alexis Kreager & Eleanor Gomes 2016, Follows 2018, Fortmueller 2019, Boyle 2019a.…”

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Sex and safety on set: intimacy coordinators in television drama and film in the VOD and post-Weinstein era

Sørensen

2021

Feminist Media Studies

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This article examines the work of Intimacy Coordinators on television drama and film sets and the rise of this new role in the screen industry from a policy and production studies perspective. Since HBO made the employment of an Intimacy Coordinator mandatory on all productions with scenes of sex, nudity, and physical intimacy in 2018, intimacy coordination has become an industry standard and expectation. Through interviews and analysis of production practices, this article explores how Intimacy Coordinators change and challenge established production practices on and off set and interrogates the reasons behind the emergence of this role in the screen industry. It situates intimacy coordination in the context of recent industry policies and initiatives that promote equality and diversity, and counter harassment and abuse in the post-Weinstein era. It analyses this role on relation to changingproduction and distribution models and regimes in the era of VOD portals. The article argues that intimacy coordination is not only a catalyst for reforming practices on set, but a way for the screen industry to negotiate contemporary and historic concerns about sexual harassment and abuse, comply with recent policy and funding requirements, and a mechanism for mitigating economic and reputational risk to productions.

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“…Now, most contemporary work on gender from a feminist perspective engages with intersectionality. According to Bachmann et al (2018), a major criticism of earlier feminist perspectives was its failure to address the intersectional nature of gender. Gender identities should always be understood in relation to class, age, sexuality, race, and ethnicity.…”

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Let’s Get Loud: Intersectionally Studying the Super Bowl’s Halftime Show

Bauwel

Krijnen

2021

MaC

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The study of popular culture has always been closely related to the study of class, gender, race, and sexuality. An increasing number of authors have called for an intersectional approach. However, the contradictory, fluid meanings articulated in popular culture render such an approach difficult, and many ignore the call for intersectional analysis. We will not. We will try to engage with an intersectional analysis of popular culture, using Shakira and Jennifer Lopez’s performance at the 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show as a case to study the intersections of identity markers. We aim to bridge the different meanings attributed to their performance and to understand them as different elements in the intersectional configuration. A discourse analysis of the performance, and of reviews thereof, was performed to unravel five elements highlighted in the discourse: the quality of the show, Shakira and Lopez’s empowered performances, the incorporation of Latinidad elements, the performers’ sexiness, and perceived political messages. Our aim to understand how the contradictory discourses about these elements arose urges the reader to use listening to grapple with the complexity of intersectional analysis. Truly listening includes putting effort into opening up academic cultures, finding other voices. It is important to recognize global gender inequity, but we need to start investing far more to understand the politics of media representations as a transnational affair that causes multiple conceptions of gender (and other related) concepts to clash, mesh, and integrate.

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Through a Feminist Kaleidoscope: Critiquing Media, Power, and Gender Inequalities

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

“Dabo Wears Male Rompers”: Examining Expressions of Hegemonic Masculinity and Identity in ESPN’s College GameDay

“Dabo Wears Male Rompers”: Examining Expressions of Hegemonic Masculinity and Identity in ESPN’s College GameDay

Sex and safety on set: intimacy coordinators in television drama and film in the VOD and post-Weinstein era

Let’s Get Loud: Intersectionally Studying the Super Bowl’s Halftime Show

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