Living Color

Race and Television in the United States
Herausgeber: Torres, Sasha

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Produktbeschreibung

"This collection of essays provides an essential addition to work within the fields of media, cultural, and critical race studies; its provocative readings of television texts and audiences will no doubt yield important new insights on the relationship between television, race, ethnicity, and history."--Lynne Joyrich, author of "Re-viewing Reception: Television, Gender, and Postmodern Culture"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780822321958
• ISBN-10: 0822321955
• Artikelnr.: 22429319

Autorenporträt

Sasha Torres is Professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction / Sasha Torres 1
Entertaining "Difference": Strains of Orientalism in Early Los Angeles
Television / Mark Williams 12
Confronting "The Indian Problem": Media Discourses of Race, Ethnicity,
Nation, and Empire in 1950s America / Pamela Wilson 35
Extra-Special Effects: Televisual Representation and the Claims of "the
Black Experience" / Phillip Brian harper 62
Narrowcasting in Diaspora: Middle Eastern Television in Los Angeles / Hamid
Neficy 82
Re-Covering Racism: Crack Mothers, Reaganism, and the Network News / Jimmie
L. Reeves 97
"Reliving the Past Over and Over Again": Race, Gender, and Popular Memory
in Homefront and I'll Fly Away / Mimi White 118
King TV / Sasha Torres 140
Televisual Politics: Negotiating Race in the L.A. Rebellion / John Caldwell
161
Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counter-publicity: Performing an Ethics of the
Self / Jose Esteban Munoz 195
Game Theory: Racial Embodiment and Media Crisis / Stephen Michael Best 219
Here Comes the Judge: The Dancing Itos and the Televisual Construction of
the Enemy Asian Male / Brian Locke 239
Selected Bibliography 255
Index 263
Contributors 273