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Mass Communication & Society; Popular Culture Reading List
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“Tackling the Issues: Meaning Making in a Telenovela,” by Acosta-Alzuru, Carolina (2003). Popular Communication 1(4):193. 
“Oz: Television Drama Meets the Penal System,” by Auster, Albert (1999). Television Quarterly 30(1):16.
“Gay Characters in Conventional Spaces: Will and Grace and the Situation Comedy Genre,” by Battles, Kathleen & Hilton-Morrow, Wendy (2002). Critical Studies in Media Communication 19(1):87 (March). 
"Now That She's Out,” by Bonnie, Bedlam (1997). The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 4(3): 55 (July 31) p. 55. 
“BOSTON REPORTER USES COLUMN TO 'COME OUT'” (2003). Quill 91(9). 
“Framing, Value Words, and Citizens' Explanations of Their Opinions,” by Brewer, Paul R. (2002). Political Communication 19(3):303 (July). 
“Traveling Orthodoxies? Sexuality and Political Correctness in New Zealand,” by Brickell, Chris (2004). Journal of Communication Inquiry 28(2):104 (April). 
Alternative channels: The uncensored story of gay and lesbian images on radio and television, 1930s to the present, by Capsuto, Steven (2000). New York: Ballantine. 
Talking American: Cultural discourses on Donahue, by Carbaugh, Donal (1988).  Norwood, NJ: Ablex. 
“Signifying Same-Sex Desire in Television Cartoons,” by Dennis, Jeffrey P. (2003). Journal of Popular Film & Television 31(3):132 (Fall). 
“I love 'Laverne and Shirley': Lesbian Narratives, Queer Pleasure and Television Sitcoms,” by Alexander Doty (1993), pp. 39-62 in Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
“Ellen, television, and the politics of gay and lesbian visibility,” by Dow, Bonnie J. (2001). Critical Studies in Mass Communication 18: 123-40.
“Between Law and Love: Christianity, Politics, and Sexual Citizenship,” by Earnest, William J. (2002), in Dane S. Claussen (ed.), Sex, Religion, Media (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield). 
“Invisibility, Homophobia and Heterosexism: Lesbians, Gays and the Media,” by Fejes, Fred & Petrich, Kevin (1993). Critical Studies in Mass Communication 10(4):395 (December). 
“Sex and Address in 'Dynasty,’” by Finch, Mark (1986). Screen 27(6):24 (November/December). 
Freaks talk back: Tabloid talk shows and sexual nonconformity, by Gamson, Joshua (1998).  Chicago: Chicago University Press.
“Publicity traps: television talk shows and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender visibility,” by Joshue Gamson (1998). Sexualities 1(1):1141 (Febuary). 
Attack queers: Liberal media and the gay right, by Goldstein, Richard (2003). New York: Verso.
Up from invisibility: Lesbians, gay men, and the media in America, by Gross, Larry P. (2001). New York: Columbia University Press.
The Columbia reader on lesbians and gay men in media, society, and politics, edited by Gross, Larry, & Woods, James D. (1999). New York: Columbia University Press. 
“The Contested Closet: The Ethics and Politics of Outing,” by Gross, Larry (1991). Critical Studies in Mass Communication 8(3):352 (September). 
“Homosexuality on All My Children: Transforming the Daytime Landscape,” by Harrington, C. Lee (2003). Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 47(2):216 (June). 
 “Representing Gay Men on American Television,” by Kylo-Patrick Hart (2000). The Journal of Men's Studies 9(1):59 (October 31). 
“Were we being served? Homosexual Representation in popular British Comedy,” by Healy, Murray (1995). Screen 36(3):243 (Fall). 
“Taking the Nation "From Drab to Fab": Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” by Heller, Dana (2004). Feminist Media Studies 4(3):347 (November). 
“‘Oh God, My Kid is Gay!’: The Effects of Religious Belief and Media Consumption on Parental Ability to Accept a Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual Child,” by Jagosh, Justin (2002), in Dane S. Claussen (ed.), Sex, Religion, Media (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield). 
“Boldly Queer: Gender Hybridity in Queer as Folk,” by Johnson, Margaret E. (2004). Quarterly Review of Film & Video 21(4):293 (Oct-December). 
“For better or for worse,” by Johnston, Lynn (1995). American Journalism Review 17(1):14 (January/February). 
“Sex Lives of Cult Television Characters,” by Jones, Sara Gwenllian (2002). Screen 43(1):79 (Spring). 
“‘Look at The Real World. There's always a gay teen on there’: Sexual citizenship and youth-targeted reality television,” by Kachgal, Tara (2004). Feminist Media Studies 4(3):361. 
“Mainstream Television, Adolescent Homosexuality, and Significant Silence,” by Kielwasser, Alfred P. & Wolf, Michelle A. (1992). Critical Studies in Mass Communication 9(4):350. 
“Commie gays,” by Laitin, Joseph (1993). American Journalism Review 15(8):14 (October). 
“South Park's Solar Anus, or, Rabelais Returns: Cultures of Consumption and the Contemporary Aesthetic of Obscenity,” by Larsen, David (2001). Theory, Culture & Society 18(4):65. 
“‘It's me. I'm it.’: Defining Adolescent Sexual Identity through Relational Dialectics in Dawson's Creek,” by Meyer, Michaela D. E. (2003). Communication Quarterly 51(3):262 (Summer). 
“Gay Activists and the Networks,” by Montgomery, Kathryn (1981). Journal of Communication 31: 49 (Summer). 
“American Television Discovers Gay Women: The Changing Context of Programming Decisions at the Networks,” by Moritz, Marguerite J. (1989). Journal of Communication Inquiry 13(2):62 (Summer). 
“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: Confirming and confounding masculinity,” by Morrish, Liz & O'Mara, Kathleen (2004). Feminist Media Studies 4(3):350 (November). 
“In The Kingdom of Imus, The Courtiers Are Quiet,” by Nobile, Philip (2000). Columbia Journalism Review 39(2):65 (July/August).
“Edge of seventeen: Melodramatic coming-out in new queer adolescence films,” by Padva, Gilad. (2004).  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 1: 355-372.
“Popular Imagination and Identity Politics: Reading the Future in Star Trek: Next Generation” (2001). Western Journal of Communication 65(4):392 (Fall). 
“'On Me, Not in Me': Locating Affect in Nationalism after AIDS,” by Patton, Cindy (1998). Theory, Culture & Society 15(3/4):355 (August/November). 
“The Conflation of Male Homosexuality and Femininity in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” by Ramsey, E. Michele & Santiago, Gladys (2004). Feminist Media Studies 4(3):353 (November). 
“Ellen DeGeneres,” by Reed, Jennifer (2005). Feminist Media Studies 5(1):23, (March).
“Designed for (Male) Pleasure: The Myth of Lesbian Chic in Mainstream Advertising,” Reichert, Tom, Kevin R. Maly and Susan C. Zavoina. (1999), in Meta Carstarphen and Susan C. Zavoina (eds.), Sexual Rhetoric: Media Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender, and Identity (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press). 
“Dose of Reality,” by Rosen, Jill (2002). American Journalism Review 24(8):16 (October). 
“Do talk shows cultivate adolescents' views of the world? A prolonged-exposure experiment,” by Rössler, P. & Brosius, H-B (2001). Journal of Communication 51(1):143 (Spring). 
“A return to cultural indicators,” by Shanahan, James (2004). Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research 29(3):277 (September).
“On Misfits and Margins: Narrative, Resistance, and the Poster Child Politics of Rosie O'Donnell,” by Shugart, Helene A. (2005). Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies 2(1):52 (March). 
“Parody as subversive performance: Denaturalizing gender and reconstituting desire in Ellen,” by Shugart, Helene A. (2001). Text and Performance Quarterly 21: 95-113.
“Deconstructing Ellen: Time, Sitcoms, and the Meaning of Gayness,” by Stearns, Susan, and Meta G. Carstarphen (1999), in Meta Carstarphen and Susan C. Zavoina (eds.), Sexual Rhetoric: Media Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender, and Identity (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press).
“Skirting and Suiting Stereotypes Representations of Marginalized Sexualities in Japan,” by Valentine, James (1997). Theory, Culture & Society 14(3):57 (August). 
“The Sexual Citizen,” by Weeks, Jeffrey (1998). Theory, Culture & Society 15(3/4):35 (August/November).

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