Images That Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media » (2nd Edition)

PAUL MARTIN LESTER is a Professor of Communications at California State University at Fullerton. He co-authors the monthly column "Ethics Matters" for News Photographer, the journal of the National Press Photographers Association. He has given keynote speeches, presentations, and workshops throughout the United States and in Australia, Canada, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

SUSAN DENTE ROSS is an Associate Professor at the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University, where she directs the undergraduate program in Media and the Law. In addition to conducting research on media portrayals of minorities, she is a First Amendment scholar and the former head of the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Offers a critical view of media stereotypes of diverse cultural groups, including ethnic, racial, and gender-related imagery.

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Experts in communication, visual communication, and graphics analyze images that present various stereotypes, looking at the impacts of such images on individuals and society and the motivations of those who made the images. Topics include media methods that lead to stereotypes; newspaper stereotypes of African Americans; images of men in advertising; and images of teachers in network television. Contains b&w photos. For students and professionals in media, journalism, and communication. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)