Research Catalog

Title

Racism, ethnicity, and the media / written by Heather Goodall ... [et al.] ; edited by Andrew Jakubowicz.

Publication

St. Leonards, NSW, Australia : Allen & Unwin, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Goodall, Heather
• Jakubowicz, Andrew.

Description

xiii, 210 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

The Racism and Media research group at the University of Technology, Sydney shows that the media often present a distorted and at times racist image of Australian society.

Series Statement

Australian cultural studies

Uniform Title

Australian cultural studies.

Subject

• Mass media and minorities > Australia
• Mass media and race relations > Australia
• Mass media policy > Australia
• Racism > Australia
• Multiculturalism > Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-204) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pt. I. Framed as/named as different. 1. Context. 2. The racism and media project. 3. Australian media studies and issues of race and ethnicity. 4. Ideology and the media. 5. Power and the media: Concentration. 6. Power and the media: Globalisation. 7. Cultural critiques and Australian (dis)content. 8. Races and racisms. 9. The new racism, communal identities and the nation. 10. Race, cultural pluralism and the media in Australia: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. 11. Race, cultural pluralism and the media in Australia: Immigrants. 12. The state and the media in a culturally pluralist Australia. 13. The direction of the book -- Pt. II. Representing Australia: Nation and national identity. 14. Dreaming up the nation. 15. Defining/confining the original nations: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders -- in and out of the nation or putting people in their place? 16. Boundaries of the nation: The Gulf War. 17. Boundaries of the nation: The boat people.
• 18. The Blonde Aussie Mum, the Aussie family and the Aussie nation: Television ads. 19. Romance fiction, soaps and serials. 20. Frameworks for marginalising Aboriginal voices: 'Factions', 'drunks' and 'real' Aborigines -- Pt. III. Dimensions of difference. 21. Making a difference. 22. Making children: Sugar and spice and TV advertising. 23. All together now: The new racial and cultural inclusivity in children's animations. 24. Making The Australian. 25. Making Italians in Australian television drama. 26. Wogs still out of work: Australian television comedy as colonial discourse -- Pt. IV. Media practices and audience perceptions. 27. Structures of control. 28. Media practitioners. 29. News values and minority journalists. 30. An audience perception: Acropolis Now on stage. 31. An audience perception: Ethnic audiences and the mass media -- Pt. V. The way forward. 32. Our problem with multiculturalism. 33. Media representation. 34. A conscious aim?

ISBN

1863733647

LCCN

^^^93206033^

OCLC

• 31614878
• SCSB-12479252

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library