Guerra de imagens, imagens da guerra

Abstract

In this paper I return to incursions that I made in media analysis in two previous articles: "Japanese is to TV Like a Mulatto is to Beer: Racial stereotypes in Brazilian advertising" (Rial, 1995) and "War of Images, Images of war" (Rial 2007), the latter about rapes in Iraq and the near silence about them in the media. Although the articles involve quite diverse issues, both point to stereotyped representations of social differences in the media, the first article involves race, the second gender, ethnicity and religion.