[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

[5.8a] Representations of Femininity

[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

Powerpoints

Representations of teachers

[5.13.1] Representations of teachers in films from 1939-1998

[5.13.2] Dan Ouellette, Tube Teachers, Edutopia

[5.13.3] Buzzle.com: “YAWP!" Hollywood's Teachers Earn A+

[5.13.4] Henry A. Giroux: Substituting Prisons for Schools

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.

Students could examine these political cultural models or discourses as evident in representations of social issues by both conservatives and liberals on web sites for the:

Representations of students

[5.13.5] Metta Spencer: Hollywood and High School Kids

Representations of lawyers

[5.13.6] Television lawyers

Representations of criminals

[5.13.7] Media Representation of Crime News

Representations of families

[5.13.8] Justin Watson A Semiotic Analysis of the Representation of “The Family” in Children’s Commercials

[5.13.9] Media Awareness: The Constructed World of TV Families

Further reading

Pisters, P., & Staat, W. (Eds.).  (2005).  Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values.  Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Tincknell, E.  (2005).  Mediating the Family: Gender, Culture and Representation. New York: Oxford University Press.

Places and spaces

Urban communities

[5.13.10] Betti-Sue Hertz and Lydia Yee Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960

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[5.13.13] Webquest: studying an urban neighborhood

[5.13.14] Media Representations of the City

[5.13.15] M/C Journal: Street Smarts/Smart Streets: Public Pedagogies and the Streetscape

[5.13.16]  LinkTV: Katrina’s Racial Wake

[5.13.17] Hazel Rose Markus: Race and Representation: media representations of Katrina

[5.13.18]  Spike Lee: HBO documentary: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Suburban communities

[5.13.19] John Archer, Course on Suburbia,  University of Minnesota

[5.13.20] Lesson plan: Sprawl: The National and Local Situation

[5.13.21] University of Michigan: Media Representations of Middle America

[5.13.22] Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies: Suburbia

[5.13.23 ] Sarah Ryder: Ideologies in Suburbia

[5.13.24] PBS: The Lost Children of Rockdale County:  a syphilis outbreak in an affluent community uncovers the hidden lives of troubled teenagers.

Rural Communities

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[5.13.27] Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town: PBS documentary about the experience of a small Virginia town coping with plans for the development of a new Wal-Mart.

[5.13.28] Jim Hightower, “How Wal-Mart is Remaking our World”

[5.13.29] Wal-Mart Watch: Wal-Mart media representations of its role in rural America

Geographical regions and neighborhoods

[5.13.30] PBS: Perspectives on the West

[5.13.31] MixedMediaWatch: There Goes “The Neighborhood”

[5.13.32] Kristina Rizga: Remembering New Orleans: neighborhoods

Further reading:

Fowler, C. F., & Helfield, G.  (Eds.). (2006).  Representing the rural: Space, place, and identity in films about the land.  Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press

Virtual tours:

[5.13.33] Urban Field Trip: Lincoln, Nebraska’s Historic Haymarket

[5.13.34] 2003 Geology Field Trip, Baraboo, Wisconsin

[5.13.35] Virtual tours of lots of sites

[5.13.36] Virtual tours: Chicago

Place-based teaching and lessons

[5.13.37] Richard Beach: Resources for Place-based Reading and Writing

[5.13.38] Placed-based Education

[5.13.30] Center for American Places

[5.13.30] City Lore; Placematters

[5.13.39] Sense of Place: Research on Place and Space

[5.13.40] Document Durham: Neighborhood Projects

[5.13.41] Don’t be Fooled by a Photograph

[5.13.42] Explore the Spatial Patterns of Your Hometown

[5.13.43] Cultural Symbols and the Characteristics of Place

[5.13.44] Pedagogy of Place Guide

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[5.13.46] Place Matters Project

[5.13.47] Literature and Place site

[5.13.48] Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

[5.13.49] ARC Place Research Network

[5.13.50] Pedagogy of Place Guide

[5.13.51] Geo-literacy: Forging New Ground

[5.13.52] Document Durham: Neighborhood Projects

[5.13.53] Exploring Your Community (grades 6-8)

Lesson Plans for Studying Places/Space :

[5.13.54] Sacred Space: Learning About and Creating Meaningful Public Spaces

[5.13.55] Perception of Place

[5.13.56] The Evolution of Cultural Landscape

[5.13.57] Explore the Spatial Patterns of Your Hometown

[5.13.58] Cultural Symbols and the Characteristics of Place

[5.13.59] School Space: An Analysis of Map Perceptions

[5.13.60] There's No Place Like Home: Examining Tourism and Cultural Opportunities in Your State

[5.13.61] Places in the West

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Further reading about place/space in the media

Carney, G. (Ed.) (1995). Fast Food, Stock Cars, and Rock-n-Roll: Place and Space in American Pop Culture. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

Couldry, N. & McCarthy, A. (Eds.) (2003). MediaSpace: Place, scale and culture in a media age. New York: Routledge.

Gauntlett, D. (1997). Video Critical: Children, the Environment and Media Power. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Hochman, J. (1998). Green Cultural Studies: Nature in Film, Novel, and Theory. Boise: University of Idaho Press.

Ingram, D. (2000). Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema. Exeter: University of Exeter Press.

Lauter, P. (2001). From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park: Activism, Culture, & American Studies. Durham: Duke University Press.

MacDonald, S. (2001). The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Martin, D. G. (2000). Constructing place: Cultural hegemonies and media images of an inner-city neighborhood. Urban Geography 21(5), 380-405.

Morley, D. (2000). Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity. London: Routledge.

Owens, L. (1997). Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Rosembaum, J. (1995). Moving Places: A Life at the Movies. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Zonn, L. (Ed). (2000). Place Images in the Media: A Geographical Appraisal. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.