Mediated Messages and African-American Culture

Contemporary Issues

Venise T. Berry, Carmen L. Manning-Miller (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

318 Seiten

1996
SAGE Publications Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8039-7278-0 (ISBN)

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Images of African Americans in our culture abound--on television, in films, on the radio, and in newsprint. Whether in works by African Americans--most notably popular music, film, and to a growing degree, television programs--or works about African Americans from documentaries to news coverage--strong images pervade our public consciousness. Mediated Messages and African American Culture is the first book to examine these images and messages as a whole. Bringing together works by leading scholars, this collection examines such vital topics as the relationship between black men and the police, the state of the African American press, and the perpetuation of images of African Americans as poor, violent, and undereducated. Timely case studies and the combination of theory and practice make this text both up-to-date and thorough in its analysis of the image and portrayal of African Americans in the media. Mediated Messages and African American Culture will be of great interest to students who study popular culture, black popular culture, African American history, and the media. The book′s critical discussion about the treatment of African Americans in the media is unique in its coverage and depth.

Introduction - Venise T Berry
Racialism and the Media
PART ONE: ISSUES IN FILM
Cultural Engineering and the Films of Spike Lee - William A Harris
Intimations of Invisibility - Ruth Elizabeth Burks
Black Women in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
The New Ghetto Aesthetic - Jacquie Jones
PART TWO: ISSUES IN PRINT
If It Weren′t for Bad Luck - Oscar H Gandy Jr
Framing Stories of Racially Comparative Risk
How Four Newspapers Covered the 1992 Los Angeles `Riots′ - Jyotika Ramaprasad
Entering the Twenty-First Century - Reginald Owens
Oppression and the African-American Press
Carol Moseley-Braun - Carmen L Manning-Miller
Black Women′s Political Images in the Media
PART THREE: ISSUES IN TELEVISION/CABLE
Television, Black Americans, and the American Dream - Herman Gray
Sex on the Soaps - Sharon Bramlett-Solomon and Tricia M Farwell
An Analysis of Black, White, and Interracial Couple Intimacy
Broadcast TV News Coverage of the O J Simpson Murder Case - Eddith A Dashiell
Racist or Starstruck?
Advertising Discourse and the Marketing of I′ll Fly Away - Karen M Smith
Black Entertainment Television - Alice A Tait and John T Barber
Breaking New Ground and Accepting New Responsibilities?
PART FOUR: ISSUES IN RADIO/MUSIC
Empowering Voices - Sharon Albert-Honore
KUCB and Black Liberation Radio
`Pride and Profit′ in Black Radio Promotions - Phylis Johnson and Thomas A Birk
Celebrating Family Days and Business Partnerships
Music in African-American Culture - Portia K Maultsby
Rap Music, Black Men, and the Police - Venise T Berry and Harold Looney Jr

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.4.1996
Verlagsort	Thousand Oaks
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8039-7278-4 / 0803972784
ISBN-13	978-0-8039-7278-0 / 9780803972780
Zustand	Neuware