Mediated Messages and African-American Culture
Contemporary Issues

Edited by:

Venise T. Berry - University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
Carmen L Manning-Miller - University of Kentucky, Louisville

Other Titles in:
Intercultural Communication

April 1996 | 318 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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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.

Venise T Berry

Introduction

Racialism and the Media

PART ONE: ISSUES IN FILM

William A Harris

Cultural Engineering and the Films of Spike Lee

Ruth Elizabeth Burks

Intimations of Invisibility

Black Women in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Jacquie Jones

The New Ghetto Aesthetic

PART TWO: ISSUES IN PRINT

Oscar H Gandy Jr

If It Weren't for Bad Luck

Framing Stories of Racially Comparative Risk

Jyotika Ramaprasad

How Four Newspapers Covered the 1992 Los Angeles `Riots'

Reginald Owens

Entering the Twenty-First Century

Oppression and the African-American Press

Carmen L Manning-Miller

Carol Moseley-Braun

Black Women's Political Images in the Media

PART THREE: ISSUES IN TELEVISION/CABLE

Herman Gray

Television, Black Americans, and the American Dream

Sharon Bramlett-Solomon and Tricia M Farwell

Sex on the Soaps

An Analysis of Black, White, and Interracial Couple Intimacy

Eddith A Dashiell

Broadcast TV News Coverage of the O J Simpson Murder Case

Racist or Starstruck?

Karen M Smith

Advertising Discourse and the Marketing of I'll Fly Away

Alice A Tait and John T Barber

Black Entertainment Television

Breaking New Ground and Accepting New Responsibilities?

PART FOUR: ISSUES IN RADIO/MUSIC

Sharon Albert-Honore

Empowering Voices

KUCB and Black Liberation Radio

Phylis Johnson and Thomas A Birk

`Pride and Profit' in Black Radio Promotions

Celebrating Family Days and Business Partnerships

Portia K Maultsby

Music in African-American Culture

Venise T Berry and Harold Looney Jr

Rap Music, Black Men, and the Police

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Contemporary Issues

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