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Screening the Los Angeles 'riots' : race, seeing, and resistance

Title
Screening the Los Angeles 'riots' : race, seeing, and resistance / Darnell M. Hunt.
Author
Hunt, Darnell M.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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xv, 313 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
  • 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.
Series Statement
Cambridge cultural social studies
Uniform Title
Cambridge cultural social studies.
Subject
  • Television broadcasting of news > Los Angeles
  • Race relations and the press > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. I. Context and text. 2. Media, race and resistance. 3. Establishing a meaningful benchmark: the KTTV text and its assumptions -- Pt. II. Audience. 4. Stigmatized by association: Latino-raced informants and the KTTV text. 5. Ambivalent insiders: black-raced informants and the KTTV text. 6. Innocent bystanders: white-raced informants and the KTTV text -- Pt. III. Analysis and Conclusions. 7. Raced ways of seeing. 8. Meaning-making and resistance. App. A. Data and methods -- App. B. Figures -- App. C. KTTV Transcript -- App. D. Questionnaires -- App. E. Tables.
ISBN
  • 0521570875 (hc)
  • 0521578140 (pbk.)
LCCN
96010443
OCLC
  • 503082817
  • ocn503082817
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries