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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800073303321

Autore

Markovitz Jonathan

Titolo

Racial spectacles : explorations in media, race, and justice / / Jonathan Markovitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-91125-1

1-283-10574-8

9786613105745

1-136-91126-X

0-203-84321-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

302.23089/00973

Soggetti

Mass media and minorities - United States

Minorities in mass media

Mass media and race relations - United States

Mass media - Objectivity - United States

Mass media and criminal justice - United States

African Americans in mass media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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