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Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots'
Race, Seeing, and Resistance

Part of Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

Author: Darnell M. Hunt, University of Southern California

Date Published: October 1996
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521578141

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On April 29 1992, the 'worst riots of the century' (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television news-workers 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' zeros in on the first night of these events, exploring in detail the meanings one news organisation 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 long-standing debates about the power of television to shape our thoughts versus our ability to resist, and concludes with implications for progressive change.
- Explores interplay of race and media through study of historic event of LA 'riots'
- Includes interviews with white, African-American and Latino viewers
- Combines critical media studies and sociological approaches
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Product details
- Date Published: October 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521578141
- length: 332 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.587kg
- contains: 38 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Context and Text:
2. Media, race and resistance
3. Establishing a meaningful benchmark: the KTTV text and its assumptions
Part 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
Part III. Analysis and Conclusions:
7. Raced ways of seeing
8. Meaning-making and resistance
Postscript
Appendices
Notes
References
Index.
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Darnell M. Hunt, University of Southern California