TASK 2

‘’Male sensitivity has become sufficiently accepted on television’’
‘’Masculinity was created in Classic Hollywood to keep the male superior’’
‘’As so often in mainstream entertainment, homosexuality is welcomed’’
''Masculine hegemony is formed from the people's common sense by, perhaps above all television, film, advertising and sports''
''Subordinated masculinities... gay,black and working class masculinities''
Kenneth MacKinnon
2003
Representing Men, Maleness and Masculinity in the Media
Arnold

‘’Multicultural societies are becoming recognised and positively represented in the media’’

Robert Ferguson
1998
Representing ‘Race’
Arnold

"A teen-utopian Hughesian world of adolescent pleasure and liberating hedonism"
"90210 justified their prurient focus on teenage sex on grounds of public service- that they were tackling important issues as part of noble campaign to raise awareness about sexual diseases and birth control"
Niel Campell,
2004,
American Youth Cultures,
Routledge

"Characters are often too superficial"

Roger Ebert

2003

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

Andrew McMeel

"through the characterization of its sympathetic and sensitive young hero"

Mark Bould, Andrew.M Butler, Adam Roberts, Sherryl Vint
2009,
The Routledge companion to science fiction,
Routledge

"There are, regularly non-white characters in teen genre movies and television, though almost never in central roles"

"The boys are all handsome, the girls are all beautiful , even the one who wear glasses and talk of themselves as geeks and losers"

Roz Kaveney

2006

Teen Dreams, Reading Teen Film and Television from Heathers to Vericona Mars

I.B Tauris & Co Ltd