ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how media apparatuses constitute and consolidate one discourse of resentment: the discourse of crime, violence, and suburban security. News magazines, television, the Hollywood film industry, and the common sense of black and Latino filmmakers themselves reproduce and maintain this discourse. The chapter looks at the impact of resentment discourses on the self-representation of black and Latino adolescents at Liberty High, an inner-city high school in Los Angeles—the epicenter of current media representations of the brutality of urban life. In a recent issue, Time magazine ran two articles on crime and violence almost side by side. In the first, "Danger in the Safety Zone," murder and mayhem are everywhere: outside the suburban home, in the McDonald's restaurant, in the shopping mall, in the health club, in the courtroom. The second article, "Holidays in Hell," tracked suburban resentment abroad: "You drool over the alluring brochures.
