Why does pop culture culture reduce women and men to such limiting stereotypes? Why are reality TV’s stock characters (The Desperate Bachelorette, The Angry Black Woman, The Douchebag Dude) so regressive? Find out in the town that creates them at the L.A. book launch for Reality Bites Back! Expect critical media commentary, revealing insights about gender in pop culture — and lots of laughs.
The authors will read from and sign their books. And after: schmoozing. What could be better? Oh, it is free.
So far, 62 people have RSVP’d to the Nov. 17th LA Launch: $h*t My TV Says: Revealing Gender in Reality TV & Pop Culture. Are you coming, LA friends?
If so, RSVP at the Facebook page.
When: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:30PM- 9:30PM
Where: Stories Books and Cafe @ 1716 Sunset Blvd (in Echo Park)Los Angeles, CA
This is Jennifer L. Pozner’s sole reading in L.A. on her book tour for Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV. It’s also going to be a ton of fun because she is sharing the mic with Shira Tarrant, who will be reading from her work on masculinity in pop culture, and with moderator Morgane Veronique Richardson, who will tie everything together!
Join us. And if you’re not in LA, here’s a calendar of all Jennifer Pozner’s tour November stops in NY, Philly, Denver, San Francisco, L.A., Boston and Washington, DC.
For Jennifer Pozner’s recent interview with Maclean’s, Canada’s biggest newsweekly, click here.
For a recent write-up on Shira Tarrant and links to her most recent articles and interviews, click here.
