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Screening the Los Angeles riots: race, seeing, and resistance
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ISBN: 9780521570879 9780511628160 9780521578141 0521570875 0521578140 0511628161 0511822545 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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.

O.J. Simpson facts and fictions: news rituals in the construction of reality
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ISBN: 1107111137 1280419008 9786610419005 0511172168 0511040040 0511148976 0511323123 051148920X 051105081X 9780511040047 0511035578 9780511035579 9780511489204 0521624681 9780511148972 9780521624565 0521624568 9780521624688 9781107111134 9781280419003 6610419000 9780511172168 9780511323126 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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.


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The O.J. Simpson murder case
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ISBN: 1532174950 Year: 2020 Publisher: Minneapolis : Abdo Publishing,

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"The O. J. Simpson Murder Case explores all sides of these unsolved murders and the famous man suspected of committing them. It discusses police investigations, conspiracy theories, the history behind how a beloved ex-football star became a murder suspect, and more. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index." -- Amazon.


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Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities
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ISBN: 081473734X 0814737358 0814773060 0814790925 Year: 2010 Publisher: NYU Press

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