Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series Editors' Introduction -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Frames -- 1. Men's Violence Against Women: Data, Explanatory Models and Debates -- 2. Women's Violence Against Men: Data, Explanatory Models and Debates -- 3. Men's Violence Against Women and Women's Violence Against Men on the Media: Aesthetics, Rhetorics and Politics of Representation -- Part II: Empirical Research -- 4. "You have to beg me not to kill you": Male Violence in Contemporary Italian Pop Music -- 5. Ladies' Violence is a Game, Gentlemen's Violence is Deadly: The (Ab)uses of Gendered Violence in -- Advertising -- 6. Tormented Men vs Manipulative Women: Male and Female Intimate Partner Violence in Factual Entertainment -- 7. "Man of any size lays hands on me, he's gonna bleed out in under a minute": The New Politics of Representation of Gendered Violence in International Crime TV Series -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Male and Female Violence in Popular Media brings into focus the apparently symmetrical phenomena of men's violence against women and women's violence against men, explaining the profound differences in their actual features as well as in their representations, which over the last few years have been proliferating in a vast array of global media contents. Elisa Giomi and Sveva Magaraggia consider popular media including crime TV series such as The Killing (Denmark, 2007- 2012), The Fall (UK, 2013-2016) and True Detective (USA, 2015), factual entertainment such as Who the (bleep) Did I Marry? (Investigation Discovery, 2010-2015), and Italian pop music in order to examine popular culture's depictions of men and women in their opposite, yet complementary, roles of perpetrators and victims. They reveal how TV shows, pop-songs, news and commercials that populate global audiences' daily life fuel false beliefs about love and sexuality that either legitimate or stigmatise violence depending on the perpetrators and victims' gender.