Race/Gender/Media : Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers

by Lind, Rebecca Ann

• ISBN13: 9780205344192
• ISBN10: 0205344194
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

Race/Gender/Mediacontains 44 different readings that help readers to think critically about issues of race and gender in the media. The readings address a multitude of topics in three major sections: Production, Content, and Audience, and approach the matter of race and gender in the media from rhetorical, social scientific, and critical/cultural perspectives.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
CHAPTER ONE Laying a Foundation for Studying Race, Gender, and the Media	1	(10)
PART I AUDIENCES	11	(88)
CHAPTER TWO Considerations of Media Effects	14	(31)
2.1 THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF STEREOTYPES: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDIA AUDIENCES	14	(8)
Bradley W. Gorham
2.2 ALL I REALLY NEEDED TO KNOW (ABOUT BEAUTY) I LEARNED BY KINDERGARTEN: A CULTIVATION ANALYSIS	22	(5)
Susannah R. Stern
2.3 GLOBAL MEDIA/LOCAL MEANINGS	27	(9)
Larry Nathan Strelitz
2.4 BODY IMAGE, MASS MEDIA, SELF-CONCEPT	36	(9)
Michelle A. Wolf, Sandy Nichols, and Dave Decelle
CHAPTER THREE Audience Reception, Use, and Interpretation of Media Content	45	(54)
3.1 "WHY DON'T YOU ACT YOUR COLOR?": PRETEEN GIRLS, IDENTITY, AND POPULAR MUSIC	45	(7)
Pamela J. Tracy
3.2 CONSUMING ETHNIC MEDIA, CONSTRUCTING ETHNIC IDENTITIES, SHAPING COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY OF GREEK CYPRIOTS IN LONDON	52	(9)
Myria Georgiou
3.3 "WOMEN WHO LOOK LIKE ME": CULTURAL IDENTITY AND READER RESPONSES TO AFRICAN AMERICAN ROMANCE NOVELS	61	(7)
Gwendolyn E. Osborne
3.4 ARGUING OVER IMAGES: NATIVE AMERICAN MASCOTS AND RACE	68	(8)
C. Richard King
3.5 THE RELEVANCE OF RACE IN INTERPRETING A TV NEWS STORY	76	(8)
Rebecca Ann Lind
3.6 CROSSING THE LINES OF GENDER AND COLOR: VIEWERS RESPOND TO FIRES IN THE MIRROR	84	(8)
Rob Baum
3.7 BAMBOOZLED?: AUDIENCE REACTIONS TO A SPIKE LEE FILM	92	(11)
Dwight E. Brooks and George L. Daniels
PART II CONTENT	99	(184)
CHAPTER FOUR General Considerations and Overviews of Media Content	103	(29)
4.1 "THE MORE YOU SUBTRACT, THE MORE YOU ADD": CUTTING GIRLS DOWN TO SIZE IN ADVERTISING	103	(7)
Jean Kilbourne
4.2 FAVORITISM AND IDENTITY IN THE MEDIATION OF SPORTS	110	(1)
Susan Tyler Eastman
4.3 INTERPRETING MEDIA REPRESENTATION AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF WHITE AND CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY	111	(14)
Jaideep Singh
4.4 FEARS OF DIFFERENCE AND MISCEGENATION: PRO-SEGREGATION ARGUMENTS FROM THE 1950's TO TODAY	125	(7)
Thomas A. Moriarty
CHAPTER FIVE Journalistic Issues: News, Public Affairs, Sports Content	132
5.1 RACIALIZED PORTRAYALS OF REPORTERS AND CRIMINALS ON LOCAL TELEVISION NEWS	132	(8)
Travis L. Dixon
5.2 THE FACE OF THE FRONT PAGE: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF U.S. NEWSPAPERS	140	(6)
Cynthia M. Lont and M. Junior Bridge
5.3 "OUTWHITING THE WHITES": AN EXAMINATION OF THE PERSISTENCE OF ASIAN AMERICAN MODEL MINORITY DISCOURSE	146	(8)
Chiung Hwang Chen
5.4 RACE, GENDER, AND THE O.J. SIMPSON CASE: HOW THE MEDIA "FRAMED" O.J.	154	(6)
Tom Grochowski
5.5 FRAMING FEMINISM	160	(8)
Rebecca Ann Lind and Colleen Salo
5.6 GENDER AND SPORT MEDIA: SEXUAL DIFFERENCE AND SI FOR KIDS	168
Marie Hardin, Kristie Walsdorf, Susan Lynn, and Brent Hardin
CHAPTER SIX Film	117	(89)
6.1 RACE, HIERARCHY, AND HYENAPHOBIA IN THE LION KING	177	(7)
Naomi R. Rockler
6.2 DESTRUCTIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE CHARACTERIZATIONS OF WOMEN IN DISNEY'S MULAN	184	(7)
Katherine E. Bartnett
6.3 SAVAGES, SWINE, AND BUFFOONS: HOLLYWOOD STEREOTYPES OF THE JAPANESE, GERMANS, AND ITALIANS DURING WORLD WAR II	191	(8)
Ralph R. Donald
6.4 HIP-HOP SEES NO COLOR: AN EXPLORATION OF PRIVILEGE AND POWER IN SAVE THE LAST DANCE	199	(7)
Leslie A. Grinner
CHAPTER SEVEN Entertainment Television	206	(22)
7.1 COLOR TV?: DIVERSITY IN PRIME-TIME TV	206	(7)
Joan L. Conners
7.2 TALKING ABOUT RACISM ON THE OPRAN WINFREY SHOW	213	(7)
Janice Peck
7.3 MASCULINITY AND RACE IN MEDIA: THE CASE OF THE HOMICIDE DETECTIVE	220	(8)
Erin MacDonald
CHAPTER EIGHT Music	228	(23)
8.1 EMINEM IN MAINSTREAM PUBLIC DISCOURSE: WHITENESS AND THE APPROPRIATION OF BLACK MASCULINITY	228	(7)
Jon B. Martin and Gust A. Yep
8.2 FROM "RICO SUAVE" TO "LIVIN' LA VIDA LOCA": A DECADE OF EVOLUTION FOR LATINO POP STAR IMAGES	235	(8)
Fernando Delgado and Bernadette Marie Calafell
8.3 "MUSIC TO RIOT BY": CALLS TO RACIAL VIOLENCE IN THE OI! MUSIC SCENE	243	(8)
Jody M. Roy
CHAPTER NINE New Media	251	(15)
9.1 PIXEL PINUPS: IMAGES OF WOMEN IN VIDEO GAMES	251	(7)
Nina B. Huntemann
9.2 CYBER-HATE AND THE DISINHIBITING EFFECTS OF ANTI-GAY SPEECH ON THE INTERNET	258	(8)
Cynthia A. Cooper
CHAPTER TEN Representations of Male-Female Relationships	266	(17)
10.1 RELATIONSHIP SELF-HELP BOOKS, SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS, AND FEMINISM	266	(8)
Felicia J. Slattery
10.2 PORNOGRAPHY IN A PORNOGRAPHIC CULTURE: EROTICIZING DOMINATION AND SUBORDINATION	274	(12)
Robert Jensen and Gail Dines
PART III PRODUCTION	283	(78)
CHAPTER ELEVEN Producing Documentary and Entertainment Programming	286	(29)
11.1 "WHO IS THE MARKET FOR THIS FILM?" THE POLITICS OF DISTRIBUTING MIXING NIA	286	(8)
Ralina Landwehr Joseph
11.2 BARRICADED INTERSECTIONS: ANYDAYNOW AND THE STRUGGLE TO EXAMINE ETHNICITY AND GENDER	294	(7)
Amanda D. Lotz
11.3 LOCATING BUTCH IN OUT OF BOUNDS: FEMALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS, EXPRESSIONS OF MASCULINITY, AND PARTICIPATORY CINEMA	301	(6)
Cynthia Conti
11.4 THE TOM JOYNER MORNING SHOW: ACTIVIST URBAN RADIO IN THE AGE OF CONSOLIDATION	307	(8)
George L. Daniels and Dwight E. Brooks
CHAPTER TWELVE Blurring the Lines: The Audience as Producer	315	(16)
12.1 "ARE YOU A 'REAL' FEMALE?": GENDER AND AUTHENTICITY IN ASHERON'S CALL	315	(7)
Nora Madison Thompson and Jonathan T. Church
12.2 PERFORMING MASCULINITY, REVISIONING SEXUALITY: ADULT INTERNET VIDEO SITES	322	(9)
Marjorie Kibby and Brigid Costello
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Employment Issues: Working in and for the Media	331	(23)
13.1 THE CHANGING STATUS OF WOMEN IN TELEVISION AND RADIO NEWS	331	(8)
Vernon A. Stone
13.2 WOMEN IN BRITISH BROADCASTING: AN EXAMINATION OF PERCEIVED OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS	339	(7)
Rebecca Ann Lind
13.3 THE WEDDING MARCH: FROM ELITE TO EGALITARIAN	346	(8)
Tina Lesher
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Epilogue: Concluding Thoughts and Additional Resources	354	(7)
Contributors	361	(5)
Appendix: Alternate Tables of Contents	366