duCille Ann duCille

Technicolored (eBook, PDF)

Reflections on Race in the Time of TV

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Produktbeschreibung

From early sitcoms such as I Love Lucy to contemporary prime-time dramas like Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as villains, vixens, victims, and disposable minorities. In Technicolored black feminist critic Ann duCille combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with the new medium of TV to examine how televisual representations of African Americans have changed over the last sixty years. Whether explaining how watching Shirley Temple led her to question her own self-worth or how televisual representation functions as a form of racial profiling, duCille traces the real-life social and political repercussions of the portrayal and presence of African Americans on television. Neither a conventional memoir nor a traditional media study, Technicolored offers one lifelong television watcher's careful, personal, and timely analysis of how television continues to shape notions of race in the American imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478002215
• Artikelnr.: 54786839

Autorenporträt

Ann duCille

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life  1
1. What's in a Game? Quiz Shows and the "Prism of Race"  22
2. "Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear": Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise
of Technicolored TV  52
3. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two  83
4. Interracial Loving: Sexless in the Suburbs of the 1960s  112
5. "A Credit to My Race": Acting Black and Black Acting from Julia to
Scandal  134
6. A Clear and Present Absence: Perry Mason and the Case of the Missing
"Minorities"  159
7. "Soaploitation": Getting Away with Murder in Primetime  183
8. The Punch and Judge Judy Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day
in Court  209
9. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics
of Palatability  232
10. The "Thug Default": Why Racial Representation Still Matters  261
Epilogue. Final Spin: "That's Not My Food"  285
Notes  289
Bibliography  311
Index  325