Mediated Messages and African-American Culture Contemporary Issues [Paperback]

Images of African Americans abound in United States' culture - on television, in films, on the radio and in newsprint. Whether in works by African Americans - most notably popular music, film and now television programmes - or works about African Americans, from documentaries to news coverage, strong images pervade our public consciousness.

Integrating applied analysis, case studies and critical perspectives, contributions from leading scholars explore key issues including: the relationship between black men and the police; the state of the African-American press; and the perpetuation of images of African Americans as poor, violent and undereducated.Images of African Americans abound in United States' culture - on television, in films, on the radio and in newsprint. Whether in works by African Americans - most notably popular music, film and now television programmes - or works about African Americans, from documentaries to news coverage, strong images pervade our public consciousness.

Integrating applied analysis, case studies and critical perspectives, contributions from leading scholars explore key issues including: the relationship between black men and the police; the state of the African-American press; and the perpetuation of images of African Americans as poor, violent and undereducated.Introduction - Venise T Berry
Racialism and the Media
PART ONE: ISSUES IN FILM
Cultural Engineering and the Films of Spike Lee - William A Harris
Intimations of Invisibility - Ruth Elizabeth Burks
Black Women in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
The New Ghetto Aesthetic - Jacquie Jones
PART TWO: ISSUES IN PRINT
If It Weren't for Bad Luck - Oscar H Gandy Jr
Framing Stories of Racially Comparative Risk
How Four Newspapers Covered the 1992 Los Angeles `Riots' - Jyotika Ramaprasad
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