Sex in Consumer Culture: The Erotic Content of Media and Marketing
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Sex in Consumer Culture: The Erotic Content of Media and Marketing considers the use of sex to promote brands, magazines, video games, TV programming, music, and movies. Offering both quantitative and qualitative perspectives from leading scholars in a variety of disciplines, this volume addresses a range of integral issues such as media promotion, racial representations, appeals to gay and lesbian communities, content analyses, and case studies. Chapters represent diverse perspectives, addressing such questions as:*What happens when sexual content created for adults reaches children?*What meaning do sexual words and images have within the contexts of sporting events, trade shows, video games, personal ads, or consumer Web sites?*What effects might sex-tinged images have on audiences, and where should the focus be for new effects research?*Where are the current boundaries between pornography and mainstream sexual depictions?Exploring sexual information as it is used in mass media to sell products and programs, Sex in Consumer Culture is an important collection, and it will be of great interest for scholars and students in advertising, marketing, media promotion, persuasion, mass communication & society, and gender studies.
1Peddling desire : sex and the marketing of media and consumer goods12Using sex to sell movies : a content analysis of movie trailers133Seduction, shock, and sales : research and functions of sex in music video314Voluptuous vixens and macho males : a look at the portrayal of gender and sexuality in video games515Sex and the marketing of contemporary consumer magazines : how men's magazines sexualized their covers to compete with Maxim676From sideline to centerfold : the sexual commodification of female sportscasters877Selling Spanish-language programming : a comparison of sex and gender in univision and NBC promotional announcements1078Sexual content of television commercials watched by early adolescents1259Sexually oriented appeals on the Internet : an exploratory analysis of popular mainstream Web sites14110Taste matters : bikinis, twins, and catfights in sexually oriented beer advertising15911From polo to provocateur : (re)branding Polo/Ralph Lauren with sex in advertising17912Where are the clothes? : the pornographic gaze in mainstream American fashion advertising19913The logic of pornography in digital camera promotion21914Erotic encounters : female employees and promotional activities24515The fetishization of people and their objects : using lovemaps to view "style" from the New York Times Magazine26316Race and gender in advertising : a look at sexualized images in prime-time commercials28117"Getting a bit of the other" : sexualized stereotypes of Asian and black women in planned parenthood advertising30118Homoeroticism in advertising : something for everyone with androgyny31919Searching for love and sex : a review and analysis of mainstream and explicit personal ads337
