Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots': Race, Seeing, and Resistance - Rilegato

Hunt, Darnell M.

 
9780521570879: Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots': Race, Seeing, and Resistance

Sinossi

Examines TV coverage of Los Angeles riots and responses of viewers of different ethnicity.

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Recensione

"...Hunt's study will undoubtably become a definitive work on hegemony theory and the riots." Jane L. Twomey, Journal of Communication

"...synthesizes important insights from British Cultural Studies, the sociology of race, social psychology, and ethnomethodology." Comunication Abstract

"...a highly original, insightful, and essential piece of research." Contemporary Sociology

"Darnell Hunt's noteworthy study presents an informed and detailed analysis of audience reaction to television news coverage of the civil rebellion in South Central L.A. that ultimately led to the death of 51 citizens, hundreds of injuries, and the destruction of more than a $1 billion in property." Dennis W. Mazzocco, Critical Sociology

Descrizione del libro

Darnell M. Hunt explores how race shapes the construction of news and viewers' understandings of it, by examining televised coverage of the Los Angeles 'riots' and viewers' responses to it. A major contribution to the debates about the power of television and our power to resist it.

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9780521578141: Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots': Race, Seeing, and Resistance

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521578140 ISBN 13:  9780521578141
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010
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