Steinman can discuss the role of mass media in society as well as a variety of media
and film issues including news media coverage, political advertising, television viewing
habits and stereotypes in Hollywood films. His research interests include the impact of
television and film on culture, and racism and Hollywood film. He teaches courses on
critical media theory, film history and analysis, racism and the media, and gender and
media. 

Steinman is the co-author of Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture,
which explores how television has helped create a culture of consumerism and
over-consumption. He is a former journalist, writing for newspapers and other news
organizations such as The Nation and Xinhua, the China news agency. 

EDUCATION: A.B., Duke University M.S., Columbia University M.A., Ph.D., New York
University 

Steinman has been teaching at Macalester since 1993

Journal Articles

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Review of "Class and News", editor, Don Heider (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), Political Communication (2006)
 

Books

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Consuming environments : television and commercial culture (with Mike Budd and Steve Craig) (1999)
 

Contributions to Books

Beyond Eurocentrism: The Frankfurt School and Whiteness Theory, Globalizing Critical Theory (2004)
 

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Reception of Theory: Film/Television Studies and the Frankfurt School, Perspectives on German Cinema (1996)
 

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Audience Research and the Wish for Science, Political Communication Research: approaches, studies, assessments (1987)