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Critical Studies in Media Communication
Volume 26(3), 2009

 
CONTENTS
 
Grano, Daniel A. Muhammad Ali versus the 'Modern Athlete': On voice in mediated sports culture. 191-211
 
  Through the example of the documentary film Ali Rap, this essay considers how longings for heroic voice that characterize contemporary sports culture are addressed through intertextual disembodiments and re-embodiments of voice that constitute the ideological commitments, passions, and distresses of sport 
 
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film
nonverbal
sports
 
 
Gray, Mary L. 'Queer Nation is Dead/Long Live Queer Nation': The politics and poetics of social movement and media representation. 212-236
 
  This paper fleshes out the rhetorical structure of Queer Nation/San Francisco (QN/SF), a direct action group lauded for challenging the terms of gay and lesbian visibility politics but seen as failing to sustain that challenge 
 
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democracy
homosexuality
public relations
semiotic theory
interpersonal
 
 
Joseph, Ralina L. 'Tyra Banks Is Fat': Reading (post-)racism and (post-)feminism in the new millennium. 237-254
 
  In the new millennium United States, race and gender are popularly understood, from legislation to television, as personal, individual, and mutable traits and not structural, institutional, and historic forces 
 
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gender
television
African American issues and civil rights
race and ethnicity
public relations
 
 
Petersen, Jennifer Media as sentimental education: The political lessons of HBO's The Laramie Project and PBS's Two Towns of Jasper. 255-274
 
  The Laramie Project and Two Towns of Jasper were TV movies created in response to two hate crimes 
 
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television
film
education
text and writing
 
 
Rivero, Yeidy M. Havana as a 1940s-1950s Latin American Media Capital 275-293
 
  This essay examines the Cuban broadcasting industry's prominent position in the 1940s and 1950s Latin American media landscape by analyzing the transformations of Havana-based radio and television and the media exchanges between Cuba, the U.S., and Latin America 
 
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Central America
broadcasting and media
organizational
television
radio