Relevant Theorists

Gaye Tuchman

• Topics - The symbolic annihilation of women, Structuralisation
• Books - Making News: A Study in Construction of Reality, Edging Women Out
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David Gauntlett

• Topics - Gender
• Books - Media, Gender and Identity
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Laura Mulvey

• Topics - Male gaze, Feminism
• Books - Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
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Judith Butler

• Topics - Feminism, Gender
• Books - Gender Trouble, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex", Undoing Gender
• Key quotes - "Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original"

Stuart Hall

• Topics - Hegemony, Race, Identity
• Books - Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse, Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
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Antonio Gramsci

• Topics - Hegemony
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Anthony Giddens

• Topics - Structuration
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• Key quotes - "What to do? How to act? Who to be? These are focal questions for everyone living in circumstances of late modernity – and ones which, on some level or another, all of us answer, either discursively or through day-to-day social behaviour"

Manuel Alvarado

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Nick Lacey

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Richard Dyer

• Topics - Gays, Culture, Race
• Books - White: Essays on Race and Culture, Culture of Queers, The Role of Stereotypes
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Marshall McLuhan

• Topics - Media effects
• Books - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects
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Theodor Adorno

• Topics - Marxism
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