Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots': Race, Seeing, and Resistance (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies) - Softcover

Hunt, Darnell

 
9780521578141: Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots': Race, Seeing, and Resistance (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521578140 ISBN 13: 9780521578141
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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

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On April 29, 1992, the "worst riots of the century" (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television newsworkers tried frantically to keep up with what was happening on the streets while, around the city, nation and globe, viewers watched intently as leaders, participants, and fires flashed across their television screens. Screening the Los Angeles "riots" zeroes in on the first night of these events, exploring in detail the meanings one news organization found in them, as well as those made by fifteen groups of viewers in the events' aftermath. Combining ethnographic and quasi-experimental methods, Darnell M. Hunt's account reveals how race shapes both television's construction of news and viewers' understandings of it. He engages with the longstanding debates about the power of television to shape our thoughts versus our ability to resist, and concludes with implications for progressive change.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521578140
ISBN 13 
9780521578141
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
332

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