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balanced analysis,
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This review is from: Media Matters: Race and Gender in U.S. Politics (Paperback)
The timeliness of Fiske's book is undimmed by this year being 2006. Written in 1996, it discusses seminal cultural events in the US, mostly in the earlier part of the decade. Such as the Rodney King video and the subsequent Los Angeles race riot of 1992. Or the OJ Simpson trial just shortly thereafter.
His analysis seems balanced and commendably dispassionate. Especially when you consider that he wrote this with the riots still fresh in memory, and just after the conclusion of the OJ trial. Of course, it is not just the events, but perhaps equally an analysis of how the media portrayed the happenings, that figure significantly in the book. Despite "gender" in the title, the book is mostly about race.
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This review is from: Media Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change (Hardcover)
John Fiske is a professor at the University of Wisconson-Madison and has done a fair bit of research concerning culture, its portrayal in the media, and its effects. This book, (Media Matters) takes a different perspective and does a good job of exploring what causes political change, how that political change affects people and the role that the media and dominant culture plays in this process. Fiske does a good job of explaining his position and backs up his writings with examples that most poeple can understand and relate to. Fiske has written many books concerning popular culture and the effects of television on culture and many of those same concepts carry over to this book. If you have read and enjoyed his other writings, then I think you'll find that this book follows in the same tradition.
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nonracist racism, moral totalism, inferential racism, white social order, ethnic weapon, genocidal strategy, white imagination, white strategy, white media, racial power, enlightened racism, economic racism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Murphy Brown, Anita Hill, Dan Quayle, Los Angeles, Rodney King, African Americans, Clarence Thomas, Tale of Three Videos, Black Liberation Radio, Viewing Bill Cosby, United States, Zears Miles, The Cosby Show, Rush Limbaugh, Latasha Harlins, Willie Horton, New York Times, Blackstream Knowledge, White House, Reginald Denny, Pat Buchanan, Orrin Hatch, Simi Valley, Supreme Court, George Bush New!
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nonracist racism, moral totalism, inferential racism, white social order, ethnic weapon, genocidal strategy, white imagination, white strategy, white media, racial power, enlightened racism, economic racism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Murphy Brown, Anita Hill, Dan Quayle, Los Angeles, Rodney King, African Americans, Clarence Thomas, Tale of Three Videos, Black Liberation Radio, Viewing Bill Cosby, United States, Zears Miles, The Cosby Show, Rush Limbaugh, Latasha Harlins, Willie Horton, New York Times, Blackstream Knowledge, White House, Reginald Denny, Pat Buchanan, Orrin Hatch, Simi Valley, Supreme Court, George Bush New!
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- Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television (Console-ing Passions) by Kevin Glynn on 4 pages
- Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation (American Crossroads) by Herman S. Gray in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Living Color: Race and Television in the United States (Console-ing Passions) by Sasha Torres in Front Matter, page 253, and Back Matter
- Media Representations of September 11 (Crime, Media, and Popular Culture) by Steven Chermak in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955–1969 (Console-ing Passions) by Steven D. Classen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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