Male and Female Violence in Popular Media (Library of Gender and Popular Culture)

Male and Female Violence in Popular Media (Library of Gender and Popular Culture)

Elisa Giomi, Sveva Magaraggia
$168.00
Publication Date: November 3rd, 2022
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:
9781350168756
Pages:
256
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Description

Male and Female Violence in Popular Media brings into focus the apparently symmetrical phenomena of men's violence against women and women's violence against men, explaining the profound differences in their actual features as well as in their representations, which over the last few years have been proliferating in a vast array of global media contents.

Elisa Giomi and Sveva Magaraggia consider popular media including crime TV series such as The Killing (Denmark, 2007- 2012), The Fall (UK, 2013-2016) and True Detective (USA, 2015), factual entertainment such as Who the (bleep) Did I Marry? (Investigation Discovery, 2010-2015), and Italian pop music in order to examine popular culture's depictions of men and women in their opposite, yet complementary, roles of perpetrators and victims. They reveal how TV shows, pop-songs, news and commercials that populate global audiences' daily life fuel false beliefs about love and sexuality that either legitimate or stigmatise violence depending on the perpetrators and victims' gender.

About the Author

Elisa Giomi is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts at Roma Tre University, Italy. Her work has been published in Television Antiheroines (2017) and the International Review of Sociology. Sveva Magaraggia is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Sciences at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. Her publications include Feminist Perspectives on Teaching Masculinities: Learning Beyond Stereotypes (2019) and "The Men's Issue. Male Violence against Women in Media Representations" in AIS-Journal of Sociology.

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