TY - BOOK ID - 32054480 TI - Screening the Los Angeles "riots" PY - 1997 SN - 9780521570879 9780511628160 9780521578141 0521570875 0521578140 0511628161 0511822545 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Race relations and the press KW - Television broadcasting of news KW - 316.774.16 KW - 323.1 <73> KW - Television broadcasting KW - Television coverage of news KW - Television journalism KW - Television news KW - Broadcast journalism KW - Press and race relations KW - Race problems and the press KW - Press KW - 323.1 <73> Nationale bewegingen. Nationalisme. Rassenpolitiek--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - Nationale bewegingen. Nationalisme. Rassenpolitiek--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - 316.774.16 Massamedia: maatschappelijk, politiek, ideologisch, ethisch, juridisch, socio-cultureel--(communicatiesociologie) KW - Massamedia: maatschappelijk, politiek, ideologisch, ethisch, juridisch, socio-cultureel--(communicatiesociologie) KW - News KW - Sociology of minorities KW - Social problems KW - Mass communications KW - Los Angeles KW - Los Angeles [California] KW - Social Sciences KW - Sociology KW - Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 KW - King Rebellion, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 KW - King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 KW - Los Angeles Civil Disturbance, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 KW - Los Angeles Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 KW - Rodney King Rebellion, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 KW - South Central Riots, Los Angeles, Calif. 1992 KW - Race riots KW - Press coverage. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32054480 AB - On April 29 1992, the 'worst riots of the century' (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television news-workers tried frantically to keep up with what was happening on the streets while, around the city, nation and globe, viewers watched intently as leaders, participants and fires flashed across their television screens. Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots' zeros in on the first night of these events, exploring in detail the meanings one news organisation found in them, as well as those made by fifteen groups of viewers in the events' aftermath. Combining ethnographic and quasi-experimental methods, Darnell M. Hunt's account reveals how race shapes both television's construction of news and viewers' understandings of it. He engages with the long-standing debates about the power of television to shape our thoughts versus our ability to resist, and concludes with implications for progressive change. ER -