Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Web-Linked Guide to Resources and Activities

Chapter 5: Studying Media Representations

[5.1] What Are Media Representations

[5.2] Representations of Gender, Race, and Class

[5.3] Representations of Different Cultures

[5.4] Studying Media Representations

[5.5] Teaching Analysis of Media Representations

[5.6] Representation and Censorship

[5.7] Representations and Idealization

[5.8] Studying Representations of Social Types or Groups

 
 

[5.8b] Masculinity

 

[5.8c] Masculinity and Sports

 

[5.8d] Gays / Lesbians

 

[5.8e] Racial and Ethnic Groups

 

[5.8f] Class

[5.9] Families and Age Groups

[5.10] War

[5.11] Political Parties and Organizations

[5.12] Counter-Representations

[5.13] Additional Web Resources

[5.14] Teaching Activities

Chapter 5

[5.12] Counter-Representations

[5.12.1] Rachel Klein and Tanya Yasmin Chin, Sacred Space: Learning About and Creating Meaningful Public Spaces.

[5.12.2] Republican Party

[5.12.3] Democratic Party

[5.12.4] Green Party

[5.12.5] Media Education Foundation: Constructing Public Opinion
How Politicians and the Media Misrepresent the Public

[5.12.6]

[5.12.7] Project Vote Smart: polling data links for analyzing public political opinion

[5.12.8]

[5.12.9] Webquest: Judith Cramer, Teachers College, Columbia University: To Blog or Not to Blog

Webquests/units on politics and the media:

[5.12.10] Webquest: Elections

[5.12.11] Webquest: Cynthia Kirkeby, Watergate: The Role of Press in Politics

[5.12.12] Unit: Rachel Klein and Javaid Khan, The New York Times lessons: Tabloid Traditions: Examining the Relationship Between Supermarket Tabloids and United States History

For further reading on media representations:

Alvermann, D.E., Moon, J.S., & Hagood, M.C. (1999). Popular culture in the classroom: Teaching and researching critical media literacy. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Andersen, R., & Strate, L. (Eds.). (2000). Critical studies in media commercialism. New York: Oxford University Press.

Beynon, J. (2002). Masculinities and culture. London: Open University Press.

Bernardi, D. (Ed.) (1996). The birth of Whiteness: Race and the emergence of U.S. cinema. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Branston, G., & Stafford, R. (2003). The media student's book. New York: Routledge.

Buckley, C., & Fawcett, H. (2002). Fashioning the feminine: Representation and women's fashion from the Fin De SiÂ-cle to the present. New York: I.B. Tauris.

Burt, R. (Ed.). (2002). Shakespeare after mass media. New York: Palgrave.

Chermak, S., Bailey, F., & Brown, M. (2003). Media representations of September 11. New York: Praeger.

Clark, L. (2003). From angels to aliens: Teenagers, the media, and the supernatural. New York: Oxford University Press.

Considine, D.M., & Haley, G.E. (1999). Visual messages: Integrating imagery into instruction (2nd ed.). Englewood, CO: Teacher Ideas Press.

Curran, J., & Gurevitch, M. (Eds.). (2000). Mass media and society. London: Arnold.

De Graff, J, Wann, D., Naylor, T., Horsey, D. (2002).
Affluenza: The all-consuming epidemic. New York: Berrett-Koehler.

Dalton, M. (2004). The Hollywood curriculum: Teachers in the movies. New York: Peter Lang.

Denzin, N. (2002). Reading race : Hollywood and the cinema of racial violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dyson, A.H. (1997). Writing superheroes: Contemporary childhood, popular culture and classroom literacy. New York: Teachers College Press.

Frank, T. (1998). The conquest of cool: Business culture, counterculture, and the rise of hip consumerism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Frank, T. (2001). One market under God: Extreme capitalism, market populism, and the end of economic democracy. New York: Anchor.

Gal, S., & Kligman, G. (Eds.). (2000). Reproducing gender. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Ginsburg, F., Abu-Lughod, L., & Larkin, B. (Eds.). (2003). Media worlds: Anthropology on new terrain. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Giroux, H. & Simon, R. (1989). Popular culture, schooling, and everyday life. New York: Bergin & Garvey.

Hooks, b. (1994). Outlaw culture: Resisting representations. New York: Routledge.

Joseph, P., & Burnaford, G. (Eds.). (1993). Images of school teachers in twentieth-century America: Paragons, polarities, complexities. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Keroes, J. (1999). Tales out of school: Longing, and the teacher in fiction and film. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

Klein, N. (2002). No logo: No space, no choice, no jobs. New York: Picador.

Mason, P. (Ed.) (2004). Criminal visions: Media representations of crime and justice. New York: Millan Publishing.

McLaron, P., Hammer, R., Sholle, D., & Reilly, S. (1995). Rethinking media literacy: A critical pedagogy of representation. New York: Peter Lang.

Mirzoeff, N. (2002). The visual culture reader. New York: Routledge.

Morley, D. (2000). Home territories: Media, mobility and identity. New York: Routledge.

Perrine, T. (1997). Film and the nuclear age: Representing cultural anxiety. New York: Garland.

Poole, E.  (2002). Reporting Islam: Media representations and British Muslims.  London: I.B.Tauris.

Quart, A. (2003). Branded: The buying and selling of teenagers. New York: Perseus.

Roediger, D. (1999). The wages of Whiteness: Race and the making of the American working class. New York: Verso.

Said, E. (1997). Covering Islam: How the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world. New York: Vintage.

Semali, L. (Ed.). (2002). Transmediation in the classroom: A semiotics-based media literacy framework. New York: Teachers College Press.

Spretnak, C. (1997). The resurgence of the real: body, nature, and place in a hypermodern world. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley,

Steinberg. S., & Kincheloe, J. (Eds.). (1997). Kinderculture: The corporate construction of childhood. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Torres, S. (2003). Black, white, and in color: Television and Black civil rights. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Weber, S., & Mitchell, C. (1995). That's funny, You don't look like a teacher!: Interrogating images and identity in popular culture. New York: Routledge.

Whannel, G. (2001). Media sport stars: Masculinities and moralities. New York: Routledge.

Williams, L. (2002). Playing the race card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Wilson, L. (1999). The wired church: Making media ministry. New York: Abington.

For further reading on media representations of teachers:

Dalton, M. (2004). The Hollywood curriculum: Teachers in the movies. New York: Peter Lang.

Giroux, H. & Simon, R. (1989). Popular culture, schooling, and everyday life. New York: Bergin & Garvey.

Joseph, P., & Burnaford, G. (Eds.). (1993). Images of school teachers in twentieth-century America: Paragons, polarities, complexities. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Keroes, J. (1999). Tales out of school: Longing, and the teacher in fiction and film. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

Weber, S., & Mitchell, C. (1995). That's funny, You don't look like a teacher!: Interrogating images and identity in popular culture. New York: Routledge.

 

 


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