TY - BOOK ID - 77860507 TI - O.J. Simpson facts and fictions : news rituals in the construction of reality PY - 1999 SN - 1107111137 1280419008 9786610419005 0511172168 0511040040 0511148976 0511323123 051148920X 051105081X 9780511040047 0511035578 9780511035579 9780511489204 0521624681 9780511148972 9780521624565 0521624568 9780521624688 9781107111134 9781280419003 6610419000 9780511172168 9780511323126 PB - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Television broadcasting of news KW - Public opinion KW - Television viewers KW - Mass media and race relations. KW - Mass media and race problems KW - Race relations and mass media KW - Race relations KW - Audiences, Television KW - Television audiences KW - Television fans KW - Television watchers KW - Viewers, Television KW - Mass media KW - Television broadcasting KW - Television coverage of news KW - Television journalism KW - Television news KW - Broadcast journalism KW - Social aspects KW - Attitudes. KW - Audiences KW - News KW - Simpson, O. J., KW - Simpson, Orenthal James, KW - Trials, litigation, etc. KW - Public opinion. KW - United States KW - Race relations. KW - Race question KW - Sociology of law KW - Mass communications KW - Simpson, Orenthal J. KW - Social Sciences KW - Sociology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77860507 AB - Abundant popular discourses surround the O. J. Simpson double murder case. By contrast, Darnell M. Hunt scrutinizes these very discourses in order to further our understanding of the interests underlying them. Exploring the relationships between O. J.'s trial, the social location of television viewers (their race, gender and class) and everyday consciousness of social issues, his textual and audience analyses consider the incredible allure of the trial as 'media event'. Looking beyond the obvious explanations of celebrity, scandal and voyeurism, Dr Hunt asks: why was America so obsessed by this case? Why were so many people interested in particular outcomes? and what are we to make of the apparent racial divide in attitudes about the case, as shown in the opinion polls? O. J. Simpson Facts and Fictions incorporates insights from sociology and cultural studies to examine the implications for race relations in the United States at the dawn of the new millennium. ER -