Media Messages: What Film, Television, and Popular Music Teach Us about Race, Class, Gender and Sexual Orientation

by Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe

Book Overview

The new edition of this widely adopted book reveals how the popular media contribute to widespread myths and misunderstanding about cultural diversity. While focused on the impact of television,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765603373
• ISBN13: 9780765603371
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Useful for Educators

"Media Messages" is one of the few books to confront issues of race, class, and gender in the media. Holtzman's work will be useful to media literacy educators seeking ideas for how to address issues of multiculturalism and the media in the classroom. Holtzman provides media activities that help readers and students reflect on their own racial, sexual, and class backgrounds and perceptions, and how the latter is informed by film, television, and popular music. Her analysis is not just theoretical, but is supported with numerious examples of television shows, movies, and songs to explore issues of racism, poverty, and sexism. I recommend this book along Carlos Cortes's The Children Are Watching, and Zook's Color by Fox.