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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.385
EAN num: 9780275978464
ISBN number: 027597846X
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Page Count: 336
Printing Date: September 30, 2003
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Images That Injure provides an examination of a particular set of pictures that do harm to others, and in turn to all of us. These images--media-promulgated stereotypes of various and diverse groups of people--cause harm in both direct and indirect ways by presenting oversimplified, mostly negative, and often deceptive depictions. In this collection of new and revised essays, noted scholars explore the ways in which these images are created, viewed, and ultimately ingrained into the American culture, examining newspapers, books, films, advertisements, commercials, television shows, magazines, and the Internet. Groups as diverse as African-Americans, women, the elderly, the physically disabled, gays and lesbians, and Jewish Americans are considered here; also included is a special section on post-9/11 stereotyping in the media. These discussions illuminate how each of these media and each of us individually and collectively participate in a sea of meaning that is simultaneously personal and social, unique and shared, linked and independent.
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I used this text for a lecture in a class I taught on Theology and Film. The authors provide a great summary of how we stereotype, and thus do violence to one another. And yet, stereotypes are part of our shared culture. I think we surprised ourselves as we could all too easily name the stereotypes that the authors draw out.
We participate in these views even though we reject them. It is this reality upon which the writers of sitcoms rely. We may laugh at these stereotypes because they are shared, and we are in on the joke. We may see these things in our own life experiences and yet reject them because we ourselves would not want to be reduced to this wooden image. Writing in books and films are dependent upon stereotypes.
The authors remind us that stereotypes become harmful when they are combined with prejudice, ignorance, and discrimination. "History has shown that stereotyping can lead to scapegoating, which can lead to discrimination, which can lead to segregation, which can led to physical abuse, which can lead to state-sponsored genocide." "Media stereotypes reinforce and magnify our personal stereotypes. As a consequence, media stereotypes play a significant role in the social disintegration that produces hatred, violence, and misunderstanding. Images are especially powerful because visual messages are products of our sense of sight, not our cognition. Pictures are highly emotional objects that have long-lasting staying power within the deepest regions of the brain. Bur both textual and visual media messages that stereotype individuals by their concentrations, frequency, and omissions become a part of our long term individual and cultural memory. And when certain individuals or ethnicities appear only as criminals, entertainers, and sports heroes, we forget that the vast majority of people--regardless of their particular cultural heritage--have the same hopes and fears as the rest of us."
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