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This book reveals how marginalized communities and women are
underrepresented on our screens and, too often, depicted in
stereotypical ways. This is doubly true for marginalized
speakers-those who speak traditionally "nonstandard" dialects.
Lindsey Clouse examines the origins of linguistic prejudice and how
our public schools perpetuate the myth of "bad" English. By
dissecting the 500 top-grossing films of the last 20 years, Clouse
exposes how speakers of Black English, Southern U.S. English,
Spanish-influenced English, and gendered speech patterns are
represented, underrepresented, misrepresented, and mocked. Clouse
analyzes hundreds of films and characters to reveal how filmmakers
and audiences work together to reinforce negative beliefs about
stigmatized dialects and the people who speak them and reveals how
those beliefs stack up against decades of linguistic research. She
concludes by showing that these portrayals translate to real-life
linguistic discrimination and discusses the ways in which we can
combat this often-hidden prejudice. Scholars of introductory
sociolinguistics, american dialect studies, and media studies, will
find this book of particular interest.
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