Race and popular cinema: The rhetorical strategies of whiteness in city of joy

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 502-518

  Shome, Raka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonialism; Gender; Media; Race; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982956865     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463379609370035     Document Type: Article

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