Postcolonial media culture in Britain
By: edited by Rosalind Brunt, Rinella Cere
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780230545311
Subjects: Mass media and culture; Cultural pluralism in mass media; Mass media and minorities; Minorities in mass media; Cultural pluralism; History
Description: "This fascinating text introduces readers to postcolonial theory using the context of British media culture in ethnic minority communities to explain key ideas and debates. Each chapter considers a specific media output and uses a wealth of examples to offer an absorbing insight into postcolonial media for all students of cultural and media studies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-169) and index.
Table of contents: title: Postcolonial and media studies: a cognitive map /  Rinella Cere; title: The Politics of Hip Hop and Cultural Resistance: a British-Asian Perspective /  Amir Saeed; title: Alien Nation: Contemporary Black Art in Britain / Leon Wainwright; title: Mainstreaming Cultural Diversity: Public Service Policy and British Reality Television / Sarita Malik; title: Voicing the Community: Participation and Change in Black and Minority Ethnic Local UK Radio / Caroline Mitchell; title: From Mosque to YouTube: UK Muslims Go Online /  Gary Bunt; title: 'What a Burkha!': Reflections on the UK Media Coverage of the Sharia Law Controversy /  Rosalind Brunt; title: Engaging Theory; Making Films: Radical Black Cinema in Britain /  Chi-Yun Shin; title: You've Been Framed: Stereotyping and Performativity in Yasmin /  Peter Morey; title: Discourses of Separation: News and Documentary Representations of Muslims in Britain /  Myra Macdonald; title: Debating Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: the Limitations of a Culturalist Approach /  Christopher Pawling.