Racial spectacles : case studies in media, race, and justice / Jonathan Markovitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markovitz, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and minorities--United States.

Mass media and minorities.

Minorities in mass media.

Mass media and race relations--United States.

Mass media and race relations.

Mass media--Objectivity--United States.

Mass media.

Mass media and criminal justice--United States.

Mass media and criminal justice.

African Americans in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-91125-1

1-283-10574-8

9786613105745

1-136-91126-X

0-203-84321-5

9780203843215

OCLC:

719496553