ISBN:
9780415883450
,
9780415883832
,
9780203843215
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 227 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Racial Spectacles
DDC:
302.23089/00973
Keywords:
Mass media and criminal justice
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African Americans in mass media
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Mass media and race relations
;
Minorities in mass media
;
Mass media and minorities
;
Mass media Objectivity
;
African Americans in mass media - United States
;
African Americans in mass media - United States
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Racial Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race, and Justice examines the crucial role the media has played in circulating and shaping national dialogues about race through representations of crime and racialized violence. Jonathan Markovitz argues that mass media "racial spectacles" often work to shore up racist stereotypes, but that they also provide opportunities to challenge prevalent conceptions of race, and can be seized upon as vehicles for social protest. This book explores a series of mass media spectacles revolving around the news, prime-time television, Hollywood cinema, and the
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Racial Spectacles; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. "Exploding the Myth of the Black Rapist": Collective Memory and the Scottsboro Nine; 2. Anatomy of a Spectacle: Race, Gender, and Memory in the Kobe Bryant Rape Case; 3. Framing Police Corruption: The LAPD Rampart Scandal in the News; 4. Reel Bad Cops: Hollywood's Appropriation of the Rampart Scandal; 5. Racial Spectacles under an Anti-Racist Gaze: New Media and Abu Ghraib; Conclusion: Lessons from a Campus Movement; Works Cited; Notes; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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