Identity and performance in popular culture
Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial culture's inability to let go of reactionary gender representations. Jhally's starting point is the breakthrough work of the late sociologist Erving Goffman, whose 1959 book The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life prefigured the growing field of performance studies. Jhally applies Goffman's analysis of the body in print advertising to hundreds of print ads today, uncovering an astonishing pattern of regressive and destructive gender codes. By looking beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that tend to focus on either biology or objectification, The Codes of Gender offers important insights into the social construction of masculinity and femininity, the relationship between gender and power, and the everyday performance of cultural norms.
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes
Music, Documentary
5.8
Repas en famille
Documentary
5.3
School of Magical Animals 2
Family, Adventure, Fantasy
6.3
Flow
Drama, Comedy, Horror, Crime
8.0
Flow
Drama
9.3
The Painter
Action, Thriller
6.2
Maybe More
Comedy, Drama
5.8
Rogue Hostage
Action, Adventure, Thriller
5.6
1
5.9
House of Ga'a
Action, History
5.5
We
Drama, Romance
6.3
Due Justice
Action, Thriller, Crime
6.3
The Duel
Action, Comedy, Crime
6.1
V
Action, Crime, Thriller
6.8
The Convert
Action, Drama
6.1
C(r)ook
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
7.1
Abang Adik
Drama, Crime
7.6
Hunters
Action
6.0
No Love Lost
Comedy, Drama
6.1
The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder (Part 1)
Animation, Action, Crime, Romance, Mystery
6.8
Halftime
Documentary, Music
6.8
The Twenty One Pilots Universe: Welcome to Trench
Documentary
10.0
What Is a Woman?
Documentary
6.8
Marvel's Behind the Mask
Documentary
7.1
To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View
Documentary
0.0
Helvetica
Documentary
7.2
Trekkies
Documentary
6.3
Pitch People
Documentary
10.0
Butch Jamie
Comedy, Documentary, Romance
3.8
The Corporation
Documentary
7.7
The Golden Age of Songs From Our Childhood
Documentary, Family, Music, TV Movie
8.0
A Life's Work
Documentary
7.0
Battlefield Gender
Documentary, History, TV Movie
7.0
Terry's Little Village
Documentary, History
0.0
Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys
Documentary
6.8
Generation Sputnik
Documentary, History, TV Movie
6.5
Legends of the Knight
Documentary
7.4
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
Documentary
7.0
The Atomic Cafe
Documentary, History
7.2
Star Trek: The Captains' Summit
Documentary
6.7