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Media and Ethnicity

Ascher-Walsh, Rebecca (1996), 'Equal opportunities?', Entertainment Weekly Aug 16. The place of African-American actors in contemporary film.

Bhandare, Namita (1997), 'The little big stars', India Today June 16. Television actors as stars in India.

Cottle, Simon (1998), 'Making ethnic minority programmes inside the BBC: professionmal pragmatics and cultural containment', Media, Culture & Society 20. An interesting study of programme making.

De Genova, Nick (1995), 'Gangster rap and nihilism in Black America', Social Text 43, Fall. The 'immensely contradictory terrain' of contemporary Black music.

Flores, Lisa A. & M.L. McPhail (1997), 'From black and white to Living Color: a dialogic exposition into the social (re)construction of race, gender, and crime', Critical Studies in Mass Communication, March. Rethinking 'difference' in representations of race in the media.

Cottle, Simon (1998), 'Making ethnic minority programmes inside the BBC: professionmal pragmatics and cultural containment', Media, Culture & Society 20. An interesting study of programme making.

Frewen, Tom (1997), 'Conceived to fail - the ATN story', National Business Review July 18. The sorry story of Aotearoa Television retold.

George, Diana & Susan Sanders (1995), 'Reconstructing Tonto: cultural formations and American Indians in 1990s television fiction', Cultural Studies 9(3). Argues that little has changed in respect of representations of American Indian nations, even in programmes like Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure.

Goodwin, Clayton (1997), 'Stars in our eyes', New African April. The variety of roles 'African ladies' now have on British television.,p. Giroux, Henry A. (1995), 'Racism and the aesthetic of hyper-real violence: Pulp Fiction and other visual tragedies', Social Identities 1:2 . Pulp Fiction, as a social text, seems to be increasingly used as an exemplar of what is right or what is wrong about contemporary American culture. This is one example-- another is Cook 'The dark side of camp' in The Washington Monthly September 1995.

Gooding-Williams, Robert (1995), 'Disney in Africa and the inner city: on race and space in The Lion King', Social Identities 1:2. Challenges the objection that entertainment values and ideological critiques in children's films must be kept apart, particularly in portrayals of racial identity.

Graves, Sherryl Browne (1999), 'Television and prejudice reduction: when does television as a vicarious experience make a difference?'. Journal of Social Issues 55.4. The role of American children's television in shaping attitudes to race

Halloran, James D. (1998), 'Ethnic minorities and television: a study of use, reactions and preferences', Gazette 60(4). Explores the use of and attitudes to television amongst 182 viewers, of Asian origin, in Leicester (UK), suggesting that 'television was not seen as contributing to the development of a multicultural society'.

Hinkson, Melinda (1996), 'The circus comes to Yuendumu, again', arena magazine 25, Oct/Nov. A detailed story about the consequences of different agendas, whenindigenous experiences and mainstream media collide--in the case of Global TV (a subsidary of CNN) attempting to film the use of video technology by the Warlpiri Media Association in Central Australia.

Jacobs, Walter R. & Dwight E. Brooks (1999), 'Using strange texts to teach race, ethnicity, and the media', The Velvet Light Trap 44, Fall. Using racialised media texts to get students to discuss tricky issues of mediated racism, sexism and homophobia.

Johnson, Melissa A. (1996), 'Latinas and television in the United States: relationships among genre identification, acculturation, and acculturation stress', The Howard Journal of Communication 7. Suggest that English-language television in the US can play a positive role in the adjustment of Hispanic women to mainstream society.

Johnson, Peter (2000), 'Inside TV', USA Today Feb 29. Points to some improvements in the representation of minorities and women in US network television news.

Matabane, Paula & Bishetta Merritt (1996), 'African Americans on television: twenty-five years after Kerner', The Howard Journal of Communication 7. How representation of African Americans have fared on US television since the Kermer Commission recommendations of the 1960s.

McKee, Alan (1997), 'Marking the liminal for true blue Aussies: the generic placement of Aboriginality in Australian soap opera', Australian Journal of Communication 24 (1) . The representation of Aboriginal characters in Australian soap drama.

Mogelonsky, Marcia (1998), 'Watching in tongues', American Demographics April. The growing need for American television to serve ethnic diversity, such as the 38 million US residents who don't speak English at home.

Neill, Rosemary (2000), 'The invisible generation', The Media Australian May 25-31. The participation of Aborigines in mainstream and indigenous media.

Ross, Karen (1997), 'Viewing (p)leasure, viewer pain: black audiences and British television', Leisure Studies 16. Finds that black audiences are 'both irritated and worried' by British television's representations of ethnicity.

Sturma, Michael (1997), 'South Pacific', History Today 47(8). How race and politics were portrayed in South Pacific (1958).

Wall, Melanie (1997), 'Stereotypical constructions of the Maori 'race' in the media', New Zealand Geographer 53(2). The media and race relations in New Zealand. It is interesting that geogrtaphy is movuing into the cultural studies field but this article makes no mention of the work by Sue Abel.


        

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