Sex and the Spectacle of Music Videos: An Examination of the Portrayal of Race and Sexuality in Music Videos

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Too Sexualized to be Taken Seriously? Perceptions of a Girl in Childlike vs. Sexualizing Clothing (2012, background): “Rap music videos are notorious for sexually objectifying women while also degrading them (Turner 2011; Wallis 2011; Weitzer and Kubrin 2009).”
Content Analysis of Gender Roles in Media: Where Are We Now and Where Should We Go? (2011, background): “In music videos drawn from five music-oriented television networks, male characters outnumber females by a ratio of 3 to 1 (Turner 2010).”
Revisiting the Jezebel Stereotype (2018, background): “For instance, Turner (2011) analyzed the content of 120 music videos, finding that Black women characters (both central and background characters) were significantly more likely to appear in provocative clothing than any other character type, including White women.”
Do Mass Mediated Stereotypes Harm Members of Negatively Stereotyped Groups? A Meta-Analytical Review on Media-Generated Stereotype Threat and Stereotype Lift (2017, unknown): “…in popular media (cf. Collins, 2011), such as top-grossing movies (S. L. Smith & Granados, 2009), local TV news (Desmond & Danilewicz, 2010), primetime TV (Sink & Mastro, 2017), music videos (Turner, 2011), and video games (Downs & Smith, 2010; Waddell, Ivory, Conde, Long, & McDonnell, 2014).”