The Role of Actors' Race in White Audiences' Selective Exposure to Movies

Journal of Communication

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 369-385

  Weaver, Andrew J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; LATINO PEOPLE; MASS MEDIA; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RACIAL IDENTITY;

EID: 79953286100     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01544.x     Document Type: Article

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