What movies teach about race
Subtitle: exceptionalism, erasure, and entitlement
By: Roslyn M. Satchel
Series: Rhetoric, race, and religion
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781498531818
Subjects: Motion pictures; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures; African Americans in motion pictures; History and criticism; Motion picture industry; History; Race in motion pictures; Race relations in motion pictures
Description: "This book reveals the way that media frames in entertainment content persuade audiences to see themselves and others through a prescriptive lens that favors whiteness. These media representations threaten democracy as conglomeration and convergence concentrate the media's global influence in the hands of a few corporations. By linking film's political economy with the movie content in the most influential films, this critical discourse study uncovers the socially-shared cognitive structures that the movie industry passes down from one generation to another. Roslyn M. Satchel encourages media literacy and proposes an entertainment media cascading network activation theory that uncovers racialized rhetoric in media content that cyclically begins in historic ideologies, influences elite discourse, embeds in media systems, produces media frames and representations, shapes public opinion, and then is recycled and perpetuated generationally."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: What is movie racialization?; title: How media frames work; title: Reading culturally significant  movies; title: Who really makes movies; title: Measuring media frames that racialize groups; title: Cueing racist ideologies; title: Constructing exceptionalism; title: A call to action.