Neoliberalism and the media / edited by Marian Meyers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyers, Marian, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Political aspects--United States.

Mass media.

Mass media--Political aspects.

Neoliberalism.

United States.

Neoliberalism--United States.

Liberalism in mass media.

Physical Description:

xvi, 235 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

This book examines the multiple ways that popular media mainstream and reinforce neoliberal ideology, exposing how they promote neoliberalism's underlying ideas, values and beliefs so as to naturalize inequality, undercut democracy and contribute to the collapse of social notions of community and the common good. Covering a wide range of media and genres, and adopting a variety of qualitative textual methodologies and theoretical frameworks, the chapters examine diverse topics, from news coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the NBC show Superstore (an atypical instance in which a TV show, for one brief season, challenged the central tenets of neoliberalism) to "kitchen porn." The book also takes an intersectional approach, as contributors explore how gender, race, class and other aspects of social identity are inextricably tied to each other within media representation. At once innovative and distinctive in its illustration of how the media is complicit in perpetuating neoliberal ideology, Neoliberalism and the Media offers students and scholars alike an incisive portrait of the intersection between media and ideology today.

Contents:

Neoliberalism and the media : history and context / Marian Meyers

Reality TV "gets real" : hypercommercialism and post-truth in CNN's coverage of the 2016 election campaign / Liane Tanguay

The girl effect : philanthrocapitalism and the branded marketplace of philanthropic governance / Dana Schowalter

Neoliberalism and women's right to communicate : the politics of ownership and voice in media / Carolyn M. Byerly

Numinous fortune and holy money : Dave Ramsey's cruel optimism / John Sewell

From homo economicus to homo sacer : neoliberalism and the thanatopolitics of the Meth Project / Michael F. Walker

As American as capitalist exploitation : neoliberalism in the men who built America / Christopher M. Duerringer

Affirmative advertising and the mediated feeling rules of neoliberalism / Rosalind Gill & Akane Kanai

Kitchen porn : of consumerist fantasies and desires / C. Wesley Buerkle

"I deserved to get knocked up" : sex, class and Latinidad in Jane the Virgin / John S. Quinn-Puerta

An intersectional analysis of controlling images and neoliberal meritocracy on scandal and empire / Cheryl Thompson

Doing whiteness "right" : playing by the rules of neoliberalism for television's working class / Holly Holladay

Negotiating identity and working class struggles in NBC's superstore / Lauren Bratslavsky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781138094420

1138094420

9781138094437

1138094439

OCLC:

1055450956