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Publication details [#49059]

Mazzarella, Sharon R. 2008. Men, Media, and Machines: Fabricating Masculinities in American Chopper. Popular Communication 6 (2) : 68–84.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | genre | masculine | mass media | television soap

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/elec

Annotation

Drawing on R.W. Connell's (1995) sociology of gender, this paper explores the mediated construction of and links among various types of masculinities in the docusoap "American Chopper", broadcast by Discovery Channel.