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Media matters : race and gender in U.S. politics / John Fiske.
Van Pelt Library E169.Z82 F574 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fiske, John, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- United States.
- Mass media--Political aspects--United States.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Political aspects.
- Politics and culture--United States.
- Politics and culture.
- United States--Politics and government--1989-1993.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1993-2001.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 332 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
- Summary:
- Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiske's classic text Media Matters remains both timely and insightful as an empirically rich examination of how the fierce battle over cultural meaning is negotiated in American popular culture. Medial Matters takes us to the heart of social inequity and the call for social justice by interrogating some of the most important issues of its time. Fiske offers a practical guide to learning how to interpret the ways that media events shape the social landscape, to contest official and taken-for-granted accounts of how events are presented/conveyed through media, and to effect social change by putting intellectual labor to public use. A new introductory essay by former Fiske student Black Hawk Hancock entitled "Learning How to Fiske: Theorizing Cultural Literacy, Counter-History, and the Politics of Media Events in the 21st Century" explains the theoretical and methodological tools with which Fiske approaches cultural analysis, highlighting the lessons today's students can continue to draw upon in order to understand society. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Murphy Brown, Dan Quayle, and the Family Row of the Year 21
- "Today's Woman" and Family Values 25
- Class and Family Values 30
- Race and Family Values 38
- Whiteness 43
- Abortion and Family Values 56
- Gay and Lesbian Issues 60
- Hyperreality 65
- Multiaxiality 68
- Figuring People 71
- 2 Hearing Anita Hill (and Viewing Bill Cosby) 82
- Racial-Sexual Articulations 86
- Gender Articulations 93
- Articulations of Class 96
- Articulations and Alliances 100
- Black Figures: Clarence Thomas and Bill Cosby 104
- Race and "Today's Woman": Clair Huxtable, Anita Hill, and Murphy Brown 112
- Not the Cosby Show 122
- Black Bart 130
- 3 Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Videos 136
- Rodney King and Stacey Koon: Power Working 138
- Reginald Denny and Damian Williams: Race at Work 161
- Latasha Marlins and Soon Ja Du: Consuming Race 172
- 4 Blackstream Knowledge: Genocide 211
- 5 Technostruggles 241
- Videotech 242
- Audiotech 252
- Hierarchies and Multiplicities 260
- The Scanscape of Fear 265
- Epilogue: O.J. Simpson: "The juice Is Loose" 282
- Figuring O.J. 283
- Wife Battering and the Media 288
- Media Events 290
- Science, Truth, and Evidence 292
- The Tabloidization of the jury 299
- Dislocated Racism: The Evacuation of Whiteness 300
- Race Blindness 302.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138888197
- 1138888192
- 9781138888203
- 1138888206
- OCLC:
- 921995145
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