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Mediated Messages and African-American Culture
Contemporary Issues
Edited by:
- Venise T. Berry
- Carmen L Manning-Miller - University of Kentucky, Louisville
Other Titles in:
Intercultural Communication
Intercultural Communication
April 1996 | 318 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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
PART ONE: ISSUES IN FILM
William A Harris
Cultural Engineering and the Films of Spike Lee
Ruth Elizabeth Burks
Intimations of Invisibility
Jacquie Jones
The New Ghetto Aesthetic
PART TWO: ISSUES IN PRINT
Oscar H Gandy Jr
If It Weren't for Bad Luck
Jyotika Ramaprasad
How Four Newspapers Covered the 1992 Los Angeles `Riots'
Reginald Owens
Entering the Twenty-First Century
Carmen L Manning-Miller
Carol Moseley-Braun
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
Eddith A Dashiell
Broadcast TV News Coverage of the O J Simpson Murder Case
Karen M Smith
Advertising Discourse and the Marketing of I'll Fly Away
Alice A Tait and John T Barber
Black Entertainment Television
PART FOUR: ISSUES IN RADIO/MUSIC
Sharon Albert-Honore
Empowering Voices
Phylis Johnson and Thomas A Birk
`Pride and Profit' in Black Radio Promotions
Portia K Maultsby
Music in African-American Culture
Venise T Berry and Harold Looney Jr
Rap Music, Black Men, and the Police