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This book examines rhetoric surrounding race and ethnicity in movies. By exploring the American movie industry's content, practices, and influences, Satchel calls for an interrogation of media conglomeration and convergence as potential global threats to democracy.

List of contents

Contents

Introduction
1. What is Movie Racialization?
2. How Media Frames Work
3. Who Really Makes Movies
4. Reading Movies
5. Measuring Media Frames that Racialize Groups
6. Cueing Racist Ideologies
7. Constructing Exceptionalism
8. A Call to Action
References
About the Author

About the author

Roslyn Satchel is assistant professor of communication and Seaver Fellow at Pepperdine University.

Summary

This book examines rhetoric surrounding race and ethnicity in movies. By exploring the American movie industry's content, practices, and influences, Satchel calls for an interrogation of media conglomeration and convergence as potential global threats to democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Roslyn M Satchel, Roslyn M. Satchel, Satchel Roslyn M.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781498531818
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3181-8
• Series: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion; Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity