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"With depth & perception, Clara Rodriguez sketches the face of a people who have been mostly portrayed in outtakes & as mistakes in celluloid & print." Melita Marie Garza Chicago Tribune "The publication of Latin Looks is a significant event. Finally, someone is paying attention to the diverse & ...

"With depth & perception, Clara Rodriguez sketches the face of a people who have been mostly portrayed in outtakes & as mistakes in celluloid & print." Melita Marie Garza Chicago Tribune "The publication of Latin Looks is a significant event. Finally, someone is paying attention to the diverse & growing group of Latinos who make up ten percent of the nations population." Afterimage

Examining the full array of media available to children and adolescents, this book describes not only the amount of time they spend with each medium, but the kinds of content they choose, and the physical, social, and psychological context of much of their exposure. This national sample study ...

Examining the full array of media available to children and adolescents, this book describes not only the amount of time they spend with each medium, but the kinds of content they choose, and the physical, social, and psychological context of much of their exposure. This national sample study provides a comprehensive picture of young people's media behavior.

"After years of avoiding the subject, anthropologists have finally discovered that media can be profitably studied ethnographically and that anthropology of media is not only possible but essential. "Media Worlds is a collection of groundbreaking essays by top-notch scholars."--Jay Ruby, author of ...

"After years of avoiding the subject, anthropologists have finally discovered that media can be profitably studied ethnographically and that anthropology of media is not only possible but essential. "Media Worlds is a collection of groundbreaking essays by top-notch scholars."--Jay Ruby, author of "Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology

"Not just a book, but "the book on the anthropology of the media. The collection works not just as an assemblage but from a sense that every paper adds another perspective to the whole."--Danny Miller, co-author of "The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach

"The anthropology of media is in many ways the most dynamic domain of the discipline today. "Media Worlds will establish itself immediately as the canonical volume in this long overdue area of study. Its rigorous ethnographic studies of the production, distribution, and reception of film, television, and electronic media around the world will also encourage media and cultural studies to relinquish the exclusivity they afford to the 'text' and to attend to the global social practices of media in toto. An outstanding work."--Lucien Taylor, co-author of "Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos

"The strength of this lovely collection is in the diversity and range of the case materials that it brings together under one cover."--Michael M. J. Fischer, coauthor of "Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences

"Contemporary media studies allow us to continue examining anthropology's traditional subjects in promising new ways. This strong and comprehensive collection by the key figures who havepioneered media studies in anthropology both focuses and surveys the field. As a much needed teaching resource, it will stimulate the proliferation of culture and media courses and will transform the many courses that are built

Surveys the history, organization, role, major issues, and future outlook for different sectors in mass media and for their various audiences in the United States. Following a brief introductory overview, experts offer broad perspectives through analyses of the advertising, book, cable, film ...

Surveys the history, organization, role, major issues, and future outlook for different sectors in mass media and for their various audiences in the United States. Following a brief introductory overview, experts offer broad perspectives through analyses of the advertising, book, cable, film, magazine, newspaper, public relations, radio, recording, and television industries and present views about their audiences of minorities, women, children, the disabled, religious groups, and sports enthusiasts. Each chapter reviews and synthesizes important literature, current policies and problems, and trends for the 1990s. Bibliographies of readings and of regular sources of information throughout the book add to the importance of this handbook for college, university, institutional and public libraries.