Reading the Homeless
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Reading the Homeless

The Media's Image of Homeless Culture

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  2. English
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Reading the Homeless

The Media's Image of Homeless Culture

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As one of our country's major social problems, homelessness is often in the news. The media tend to portray the homeless as drunk, stoned, crazy, or sick individuals—a portrayal that is only partly accurate and represents an obstacle to our understanding of the wider social implications of this complex issue. This edited collection examines the various ways—both verbal and visual—in which the homeless have been portrayed by the media from the 1980s to the present day. The contributors apply different frameworks, ranging from phenomenology to culture studies, to analyze the characteristics, implications, and consequences of the stories and images disseminated by the media.

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Publisher
Praeger
Year
1999
ISBN
9780313024986
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. For Cultural Interpretation: A Study of the Culture of Homelessness
  4. 2. Covering the Homeless: The Joyce Brown Story
  5. 3. Re-Covering the Homeless: Hindsights on the Joyce Brown Story
  6. 4. Media Image and the Culture of Homelessness: Possibilities for Identification
  7. 5. Informing and Educating the Media—A Hopeful Perspective on the Media and the Homeless
  8. 6. Discourse Analysis of Television News on Public Antagonism Against the Homeless
  9. 7. The Representation of the Homeless in U.S. Electronic Media: A Computational Linguistic Analysis
  10. 8. Blaming the Homeless: The Populist Aspect of Network TV News
  11. 9. Homelessness: The Other as Object
  12. 10. From Tramps to Truth-Seekers: Images of the Homeless in the Motion Pictures
  13. 11. The Effect of Pictures on the Attribution of Homelessness
  14. 12. Japanese Furoosha (Bums) and Hoomuresu (Homeless): Living in the Shadow of Wealth
  15. Index
  16. Contributors