Bibliography Books...

Books that I have started to research on:

The media students book -Gill Branston and Roy Stafford-(2000)-UK

This book is very useful to my independent study and links to it clearly. The book contains alot of information on different stereotypes in society and weather these are positve or negative and how different people view them.

For example "stereotypes are not actual people, but widley circulated ideas ar assumptions about particular groups". This information links to my independent study as there are many assumptions on the "black" and "white" people in society.

This book also contains relevent information on representation and racism in society. It also contains information about Propp and different narrative structures.

Social Divisions -Geoff Payne-(2000)

I also researched into this book and found and analysed information on different social divisions in society that link to my independent study. For example it contains information on what social divisions are and what causes these social divisions to occur. I also found out that people in society are divided into "better" and "worse" categories. This links to crash as the white characters in the film are portrayed to live better lifes and usually have more money. However the black people portrayed in the film are seen to have less money and live less happier lifestyles.

Managing the message -Peter Hobday-(2000)

This book mainly contains information on racism in America where Crash was filmed. This book also contains information on different messages that this racism sends to the audience and what causes this to happen.

The media book- Boyd Barrett and Van Den Bulck-published in united states of America-(2002)

This book contains information on different representations in the media and also studies of audiences in the media(pg 15-16)

An Introduction to film studies -second edition-Jill Nelmes-(1996)

This book contains information on the history of women in the media and the roles of women in the film industry. Also contains information on feminism and how women are still unequal to men in society. This links to Crash as men can be seen to have more authority then women in the film.