Reading Race : Hollywood and the Cinema of Racial Violence (Theory, Culture and Society Series)
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In this insightful book, one of America's leading commentators on culture and society turns his gaze upon cinematic race relations, examining the relationship between film, race and culture.
Norman K Denzin argues that the cinema, like society, treats all persons as equal but struggles to define and implement diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism. He goes on to argue that the cinema needs to honour racial and ethnic differences, in defining race in terms of both an opposition to, and acceptance of, the media's interpretations and representations of the American racial order.
Acute, richly illustrated and timely, the book deepens our understanding of the politics of race and the symbolic complexity of segregation and discrimination.
About the Author
Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of numerous books, including Interpretive Ethnography: Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century, The Cinematic Society: The Voyeur's Gaze, Images of Postmodern Society, The Research Act: A Theoretical Introduction to Sociological Methods, Interpretive Interactionism, Hollywood Shot by Shot, The Recovering Alcoholic, and The Alcoholic Self, which won the Charles Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in 1988. IN 1997 he was awarded the George Herbert Award from the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is the editor of the Sociological Quarterly, coeditor of Qualitative Inquiry, and editor of the annual journals Cultural Studies: A Research Annual and Studies in Symbolic Interaction.
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