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This book argues that representational correctness can cause critics to miss the positive work that films and television shows can perform in reducing prejudice.

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"""Whether or not you agree with Edward Schiappa's central argument that media studies should move toward multimethodological approaches that incorporate social science measures into audience analysis to broaden its scope, it is difficult to deny that conventional textual analysis has sometimes been limited by problems related to representational correctness. Schiappa raises important questions for critical media studies and offers provocative answers."" - Mary M. Dalton, coeditor of The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed"

Whether or not you agree with Edward Schiappa's central argument that media studies should move toward multimethodological approaches that incorporate social science measures into audience analysis to broaden its scope, it is difficult to deny that conventional textual analysis has sometimes been limited by problems related to representational correctness. Schiappa raises important questions for critical media studies and offers provocative answers. - Mary M. Dalton, coeditor of The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed

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Edward Schiappa is Professor of Communication Studies and Paul W. Frenzel Chair of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. He is the editor of Warranting Assent: Case Studies in Argument Evaluation, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning.

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