The Codes of Gender

The Codes of Gender (2010)

Identity and performance in popular culture

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2010-10-13
  • User Rating: 6.5/10 from 7 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 13min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Media Education Foundation
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Sut Jhally
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Summary

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.

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  • Sut Jhally

    as Himself
Crew Scott Morris Information Systems Manager
Visual Effects Shannon McKenna Imaging Science
Crew Loretta Alper Information Systems Manager
Editing Aaron Vega Editor
Editing Andrew Killoy Editor
Writing Sut Jhally Writer
Visual Effects Andrew Killoy Animation
Visual Effects Shannon McKenna Imaging Science
Directing Sut Jhally Director
Directing Jeremy Earp Script Coordinator
Sound Andrew Killoy Recording Supervision
Camera David Rabinovitz Camera Operator
Editing Sut Jhally Editor
Sound Rikk Desgres Sound Engineer

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