Screening the Los Angeles "riots" : race, seeing, and resistance

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Screening the Los Angeles "riots" : race, seeing, and resistance

Title remainder

race, seeing, and resistance

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Darnell M. Hunt

Creator

• Hunt, Darnell M

Subject

• Race relations and the press -- United States
• Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 -- Press coverage
• Television broadcasting of news -- California | Los Angeles

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

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• Cambridge cultural social studies

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UkCbUP

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index present

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non fiction

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dictionaries

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• Cambridge cultural social studies
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks