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Postcolonial media culture in Britain / edited by Rosalind Brunt and Rinella Cere

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: x, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780230545304
  • 0230545300
  • 0230545304
  • 9780230545311
  • 0230545319
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2308900941 22
  • 302.23080941 22
Contents:
Postcolonial and media studies: a cognitive map / Rinella Cere -- The Politics of Hip Hop and Cultural Resistance: a British-Asian Perspective / Amir Saeed -- Alien Nation: Contemporary Art and Black Britain / Leon Wainwright -- Mainstreaming Cultural Diversity: Public Service Policy and British Reality Television / Sarita Malik -- Voicing the Community: Participation and Change in Black and Minority Ethnic Local UK Radio / Caroline Mitchell -- From Mosque to YouTube: UK Muslims Go Online / Gary Bunt -- What a Burkha!: Reflections on the UK Media Coverage of the Sharia Law Controversy / Rosalind Brunt -- Engaging Theory and Making Films: Radical Black Cinema in Britain / Chi-Yun Shin -- You've Been Framed: Stereotyping and Performativity in Yasmin / Peter Morey -- Discourses of Separation: News and Documentary Representations of Muslims in Britain / Myra Macdonald -- Debating Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: the Limitations of a Culturalist Approach / Christopher Pawling.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Postcolonial and media studies: a cognitive map / Rinella Cere -- The Politics of Hip Hop and Cultural Resistance: a British-Asian Perspective / Amir Saeed -- Alien Nation: Contemporary Art and Black Britain / Leon Wainwright -- Mainstreaming Cultural Diversity: Public Service Policy and British Reality Television / Sarita Malik -- Voicing the Community: Participation and Change in Black and Minority Ethnic Local UK Radio / Caroline Mitchell -- From Mosque to YouTube: UK Muslims Go Online / Gary Bunt -- What a Burkha!: Reflections on the UK Media Coverage of the Sharia Law Controversy / Rosalind Brunt -- Engaging Theory and Making Films: Radical Black Cinema in Britain / Chi-Yun Shin -- You've Been Framed: Stereotyping and Performativity in Yasmin / Peter Morey -- Discourses of Separation: News and Documentary Representations of Muslims in Britain / Myra Macdonald -- Debating Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: the Limitations of a Culturalist Approach / Christopher Pawling.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.