Postcolonial Media Culture in Britain

ISBN-13: 9780230545311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str.

Rosalind Brunt

Opis

This fascinating text introduces readers to postcolonial theory using the context of British media culture in ethnic minority communities to explain key ideas and debates. Each chapter considers a specific media output and uses a wealth of examples to offer an absorbing insight into postcolonial media for all students of cultural and media studies.

Spis treści

Preface Notes on contributors Postcolonial and media studies: a cognitive mapping; R.Cere The Politics of Hip Hop and Cultural Resistance: a British-Asian Perspective; A.Saeed Alien Nation: Contemporary Black Art and Britain; L.Wainwright Mainstreaming Cultural Diversity: Public Service Policy and British Reality Television; S.Malik Voicing the Community: Participation and Change in Black and Minority Ethnic Local UK Radio; C.Mitchell From Mosque to YouTube: UK Muslims Go Online; G.Bunt 'What a Burkha!': Reflections on the UK Media Coverage of the Sharia Law Controversy; R.Brunt Engaging Theory; Making Films: Radical Black Cinema in Britain; C.Shin You've Been Framed: Stereotyping and Performativity in Yasmin; P.Morey Discourses of Separation: News and Documentary Representations of Muslims in Britain; M.Macdonald Debating Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: the Limitations of a Culturalist Approach; C.Pawling.

O autorze

ROSALIND BRUNT is Visiting Research Fellow in media studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

RINELLA CERE lectures in media and communication studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.