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Subject(s)

• Media literacy—Study and teaching—United States [Browse]
• African Americans in mass media [Browse]
• African Americans in popular culture [Browse]
• Racism in popular culture—United States [Browse]
• Mass media and minorities—United States [Browse]

Series

• Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.) [More in this series]
• Multicultural education series

Summary note

"Drawing on cinema and popular media, Gooding offers guidance for honing media literacy skills with middle, high school, and undergraduate college students. Twelve concise racial rubrics are provided to help readers discern the disparate treatment of non-White characters onscreen, including an analysis of the top ten highest-grossing films of all time"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Evaluating the worth of a motion picture
• Have we seen this movie before?
• Value and visibility
• The angel figure archetype
• The background figure archetype
• The comic relief archetype
• The menace to society archetype
• The physical wonder archetype
• The utopic reversal archetype
• The assumed affluent prototype
• The family tied prototype
• The hero prototype
• The intellectual prototype
• The manipulator prototype
• The romantic prototype
• What the black guy dying first means.

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Other title(s)

• Race and media literacy, explained
• Why does the Black guy die first?

ISBN

• 9780807769409 (paperback)
• 0807769401 (paperback)
• 9780807769416 (hardcover)
• 080776941X (hardcover)

LCCN

2024012391

OCLC

1398567698

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