We are all aware of problematic stereotypes and prejudices regarding ethnicity, race, or gender; indeed, there are many laws to discourage such discriminatory behavior. The reality is that detrimental stereotypes in the media are so numerous and pervasive that they negatively affect the entire American population not just a minority of citizens. Not all damaging stereotypes are obvious. In fact, the pictorial stereotypes in the media that we don't notice could be the most harmful because we aren't even aware of the negative, false ideas they perpetrate. This book presents a series of original research essays on media images of groups including African Americans, Latinos, women, the elderly, the physically disabled, gays and lesbians, and Jewish Americans, just to mention a few. Specific examples of these images are derived from a variety of sources, such as advertising, fine art, film, television shows, cartoons, the Internet, and other media, providing a wealth of material for students and professionals in almost any field. The book not only describes and analyzes the media's harmful depictions of cultural groups, but also offers creative ideas on alternative representations of these individuals. These discussions illuminate how each of us is responsible for contributing to a sea of meaning within our mass culture. This expanded collection of new and fully revised explorations of media content identifies the ways we all have been negatively stereotyped and demonstrates how careful analysis of media portrayals can create more beneficial alternatives.
Record details
ISBN: 9780313378928 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0313378924 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780313378935 (ebook)
ISBN: 0313378932 (ebook)
Physical Description:print xi, 460 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Edition:3rd ed.
Publisher:Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Marking and Demarking: Images, Narratives and Identities / Susan Dente Ross. Ethical responsibilities and the power of pictures / Deni Elliott -- Stereotypes, the media and photojournalism / Willard F. Enteman -- Images in Readers' construction of news narrative / Rick Busselle and Helena Bilandzic -- The dangers of dehumanization: diminishing humanity in image and deed / Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills -- Images that empower and heal: lessons from "Migrant Mother's" migrant meanings / J.B. Colson -- Images of Race and Ethnicity / Paul Martin Lester. The Lenape: cultural survival or assimilation? / James W. Brown -- Marketing the sacred: commodifying Native American cultural images / Lucy A. Ganje -- African-American images in the news: understanding the past to improve future portrayals / Paula M. Poindexter -- Racial passing: images of mulattos, mestizos and Eurasians / Henry Puente -- Exile and erasure: The African-American Cinderella and the Asian-American prince / Paula Marie Seniors -- Delimiting, Denying and Selling our Gender and Sexuality / Susan Dente Ross. Shepard's fence: an iconic image examined / Audra R. Diers and Katherine L. Hatfield-Edstrom -- Selling sex / Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp -- Hard targets: men as a disposable sex / Lee Jolliffe -- Ain't the Barbie doll type: images in the music video "Redneck Woman" / Debra L. Merskin -- Archetypes: transcending stereotypes of feminine and masculine in the Theatre of Mediatypes / Julianne H. Newton and Rick Williams -- Images of Age, Illness and the Body / Paul Martin Lester. No kidding: using mediated images of children to sell programs, products and pleasure / Kathy Brittain Richardson -- Pepsi's generation gap / Bonnie L. Drewniany -- Tramp stamps and tribal bands: stereotypes of the body modified / Chema Salinas -- Media myths and breast cancer / Deni Elliott with Amanda Decker -- Invisible no longer: images of disability in the Media / Jack A. Nelson -- Images Shaping and Constraining Religions and Ethnicities / Susan Dente Ross. Television news, Jewish youth and self-image / Dina Ibrahim and Michelle A. Wolf -- Mass media's Mexican Americans / Ramón Chávez -- Drawing dehumanization: exterminating the enemy in editorial cartoons / Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills -- Gulf Arabs: from caricatures to image managers / Nancy Beth Jackson -- Beyond the crisis narrative: Muslim voices in the web era / Marguerite Moritz -- Images of Inside, Outside and Other / Paul Martin Lester. Minding the borders: images of Haitian immigrants in the United States / Manoucheka Celeste -- Exotic babies for sale / Diane Carter -- Virtual world stereotypes / Lawrence Mullen -- Editorial cartoons and stereotypes of politicians / Melvin D. Slater -- Ethics in a new key / Clifford Christians.