Peter Parisi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Parisi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Parisi |
| SIGNATURE | PARISI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | In the Department of Film and Media Studies of Hunter College of the City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
When the "Good One" is "Baaad: Modern Racism in John Singleton'sShaft
John Singleton's 2001 version of the blaxploitation film Shaft reinterprets this iconic representation of Black masculinity within an explicit and self-conscious treatment of the problem of racism. The film moves from a powerfully counter-stereotypical opening scene into a nominal indictment of racism that ultimately reinstates overtly racist stereotypes and privileges racist viewpoints. This paradoxical, multivalent representation of race marks …
Astonishment and understanding: On the problem of explanation in journalism
This paper clarifies the nature and definition of explanatory journalism. It distinguishes journalistic explanation from news analysis, interpretation, and investigation. Using rhetorical analysis, it reveals that explanatory journalism within the journalistic profession is both praised and prized, evaded and reviled. The analysis aims to set a clearer foundation for explanatory journalism, since it remains essential to journalism's “enlightenmen…
A Sort of Compassion: The Washington Post Explains the ''Crisis in Urban America
This discourse / narrative analysis examines Leon Dash's Pulitzer Prize winning ''Rosa Lee's Story: Poverty and Survival in Washington . '' Although Dash's stories appear to address calls for more compassionate , contextualized coverage of the urban minority poor , they are found rather to extend ''modern racism , '' the reinforcement of stereotype in sympathetic guise . Alternative news frames that would enable minority journalists to produce ge…
The New York Times looks at one block in Harlem: Narratives of race in journalism
Using discourse and narrative analysis, this study examines a three‐part series in the New York Times, portraying life on a single block in Harlem. The series appears to meet critics' calls for in‐depth coverage of everyday life in minority communities written by minority reporters. However, the systematic use of personalization—the technique of representing social life through individual portraits‐has the unfortunate consequences of reproducing …
Toward a “Philosophy of Framing: News Narratives for Public Journalism
Civic journalism advances discussion of news as a coherent narrative of the world, serving particular interests. But in practice, it limits its horizons to community news agendas and solutions. To define a truly public journalism, a story on the threat of environmental catastrophe is analyzed. The analysis suggests that journalism must in significant part be an active narrative initiative carried forward by journalists themselves. The difficultie…
Symbolizing Place: Journalistic Narratives of the City
As scholarship in a variety of disciplines acknowledges the power of symbolic systems to shape human conception, geographical research has increasingly scrutinized popular culture texts as repositories of spatial understanding. The newspaper particularly repays such study because it is tied functionally and symbolically to conceptions of place and describes characteristic inflections of the narrative of city life. Strategies in news narrative typ…
"Black Bart" Simpson: Appropriation and Revitalization in Commodity Culture1
Symbolizing Place: Journalistic Narratives of the City
As scholarship in a variety of disciplines acknowledges the power of symbolic systems to shape human conception, geographical research has increasingly scrutinized popular culture texts as repositories of spatial understanding. The newspaper particularly repays such study because it is tied functionally and symbolically to conceptions of place and describes characteristic inflections of the narrative of city life. Strategies in news narrative typ…
The New York Times looks at one block in Harlem: Narratives of race in journalism
Using discourse and narrative analysis, this study examines a three‐part series in the New York Times, portraying life on a single block in Harlem. The series appears to meet critics' calls for in‐depth coverage of everyday life in minority communities written by minority reporters. However, the systematic use of personalization—the technique of representing social life through individual portraits‐has the unfortunate consequences of reproducing …
Toward a “Philosophy of Framing: News Narratives for Public Journalism
Civic journalism advances discussion of news as a coherent narrative of the world, serving particular interests. But in practice, it limits its horizons to community news agendas and solutions. To define a truly public journalism, a story on the threat of environmental catastrophe is analyzed. The analysis suggests that journalism must in significant part be an active narrative initiative carried forward by journalists themselves. The difficultie…
A Sort of Compassion: The Washington Post Explains the ''Crisis in Urban America
This discourse / narrative analysis examines Leon Dash's Pulitzer Prize winning ''Rosa Lee's Story: Poverty and Survival in Washington . '' Although Dash's stories appear to address calls for more compassionate , contextualized coverage of the urban minority poor , they are found rather to extend ''modern racism , '' the reinforcement of stereotype in sympathetic guise . Alternative news frames that would enable minority journalists to produce ge…
"Black Bart" Simpson: Appropriation and Revitalization in Commodity Culture1
Astonishment and understanding: On the problem of explanation in journalism
This paper clarifies the nature and definition of explanatory journalism. It distinguishes journalistic explanation from news analysis, interpretation, and investigation. Using rhetorical analysis, it reveals that explanatory journalism within the journalistic profession is both praised and prized, evaded and reviled. The analysis aims to set a clearer foundation for explanatory journalism, since it remains essential to journalism's “enlightenmen…
"Black Bart" Simpson: Appropriation and Revitalization in Commodity Culture1
Symbolizing Place: Journalistic Narratives of the City
As scholarship in a variety of disciplines acknowledges the power of symbolic systems to shape human conception, geographical research has increasingly scrutinized popular culture texts as repositories of spatial understanding. The newspaper particularly repays such study because it is tied functionally and symbolically to conceptions of place and describes characteristic inflections of the narrative of city life. Strategies in news narrative typ…
Toward a “Philosophy of Framing: News Narratives for Public Journalism
Civic journalism advances discussion of news as a coherent narrative of the world, serving particular interests. But in practice, it limits its horizons to community news agendas and solutions. To define a truly public journalism, a story on the threat of environmental catastrophe is analyzed. The analysis suggests that journalism must in significant part be an active narrative initiative carried forward by journalists themselves. The difficultie…
A Sort of Compassion: The Washington Post Explains the ''Crisis in Urban America
This discourse / narrative analysis examines Leon Dash's Pulitzer Prize winning ''Rosa Lee's Story: Poverty and Survival in Washington . '' Although Dash's stories appear to address calls for more compassionate , contextualized coverage of the urban minority poor , they are found rather to extend ''modern racism , '' the reinforcement of stereotype in sympathetic guise . Alternative news frames that would enable minority journalists to produce ge…
The New York Times looks at one block in Harlem: Narratives of race in journalism
Using discourse and narrative analysis, this study examines a three‐part series in the New York Times, portraying life on a single block in Harlem. The series appears to meet critics' calls for in‐depth coverage of everyday life in minority communities written by minority reporters. However, the systematic use of personalization—the technique of representing social life through individual portraits‐has the unfortunate consequences of reproducing …
Astonishment and understanding: On the problem of explanation in journalism
This paper clarifies the nature and definition of explanatory journalism. It distinguishes journalistic explanation from news analysis, interpretation, and investigation. Using rhetorical analysis, it reveals that explanatory journalism within the journalistic profession is both praised and prized, evaded and reviled. The analysis aims to set a clearer foundation for explanatory journalism, since it remains essential to journalism's “enlightenmen…
When the "Good One" is "Baaad: Modern Racism in John Singleton'sShaft
John Singleton's 2001 version of the blaxploitation film Shaft reinterprets this iconic representation of Black masculinity within an explicit and self-conscious treatment of the problem of racism. The film moves from a powerfully counter-stereotypical opening scene into a nominal indictment of racism that ultimately reinstates overtly racist stereotypes and privileges racist viewpoints. This paradoxical, multivalent representation of race marks …
Sociology (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Journalism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 works)