Overview
- Presents a critique of stereotypes as represented in dominant media
- Based on a transnational perspective
- Shows how racial and ethnic identities remain relevant in today’s media
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Many Atlantics: Exploring Transnational Flows of Ideas and Stereotypes
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Text—Media—Intermediality: Contesting Formal and Ideological Naturalization
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Domesticating Deviancy: Euro-Americans and the Social Role of Film and Television
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Identity and Status: Disentanglements of US Discourses of Color and Ethnicity
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yiorgos Kalogeras is Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is the author and editor of several books on the Greek presence in the USA. His current project is a comparative study of Greek and Italian ethnicity in film. He edits Gramma: A Journal of Theory and Criticism.
Jopi Nyman is Professor and Head of English at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus, Finland. He is the author and editor of almost twenty books including the recent co-edited collections Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration andTransculturation (2014) and Affect, Space and Animals (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Media
Editors: Eleftheria Arapoglou, Yiorgos Kalogeras, Jopi Nyman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56834-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56833-5Published: 10 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56834-2Published: 30 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media Studies, American Culture, Ethnicity Studies, Journalism, Self and Identity