African Americans on Television

Race-ing for Ratings
Herausgeber: Guerrero, Lisa; Leonard, David

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the broader social implications of the relationship between race and popular culture as well as race and representation. Previous treatments of the history of African Americans in television have largely lacked theoretical analysis of the relationship between representations and social contexts. African Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings fills the existing void by supplying fundamental history with critical analyses of the racial politics of television, documenting the considerable effect that television has had on popular notions of black identity in America since the inception of television. Covering a spectrum of genres-comedy, drama, talk shows, television movies, variety shows, and reality television, including shows such as Good Times, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Chappelle's Show-this insightful work traces a cultural genealogy of African Americans in television. Its chronological analysis provides an engaging historical account of how African Americans entered the genre of television and have continued to play a central role in the development of both the medium and the industry. The book also tracks the shift in the significance of African Americans in the television market and industry, and the changing, but enduring, face of stereotypes and racism in American television culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 869g
• ISBN-13: 9780275995140
• ISBN-10: 0275995143
• Artikelnr.: 36080361

Autorenporträt

David J. Leonard, PhD, is associate professor and chair in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University. Lisa A. Guerrero, PhD, is associate professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Our Regularly Scheduled Program David J.
Leonard and Lisa A. Guerrero 1. Consciousness on Television: Black Power
and Mainstream Narratives David J. Leonard 2. An Interview with John Amos
Tammy L. Brown 3. Looking for Lionel: Making Whiteness and Blackness in
All in the Family and The Jeffersons Lisa Woolfork 4. What's Your Name?
Roots, Race, and Popular Memory in Post-Civil Rights America C. Richard
King 5. More Serious than Money: On Our Gang, Diff'rent Strokes, and
Webster Jared Sexton 6. Post-racial, Post-Civil Rights: The Cosby Show and
the National Imagination David J. Leonard 7. A Different Sort of Blackness:
A Different World in a Post-Cosby Landscape David J. Leonard 8. Just
Another Family Comedy: Family Matters and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Shiron V. Patterson 9. Single Black Female: Representing the Modern Black
Woman in Living Single Lisa A. Guerrero 10. The Black Family in the New
Millennium: The Bernie Mac Show, My Wife and Kids, and Everybody Hates
Chris Qiana M. Cutts 11. Blackness and Children's Programming: Sesame
Street, A.N.T. Farm, and The LeBrons David J. Leonard 12. "Black" Comedy:
The Serious Business of Humor in In Living Color, Chappelle's Show, and
The Boondocks Lisa A. Guerrero 13. Selling Blackness: Commercials + Hip-Hop
Athletes Hocking Products Regina N. Bradley 14. The Queen of Television:
Oprah Winfrey in Relation to Self and as a Cultural Icon Billye N. Rhodes
and Kristal Moore Clemons 15. Tyler Perry Takes Over TV Bettina L. Love
16. B(l)ack in the Kitchen: Food Network Lisa A. Guerrero 17. Ratchet
Responsibility: The Struggle of Representation and Black Entertainment
Television Kristen J. Warner 18. White Authorship and the Counterfeit
Politics of Verisimilitude on The Wire Michael Johnson Jr. 19.
Representations of Representation: Urban Life and Media in Season Five of
The Wire Bhoomi K. Thakore 20. La-La's Fundamental Rupture: True Blood's
Lafayette and the Deconstruction of Normal Kaila Adia Story 21. Can the
Black Woman Shout? A Meditation on "Real" and Utopian Depictions of African
American Women on Scripted Television Rebecca Wanzo 22. Scandal and Black
Women in Television Kwakiutl L. Dreher 23. "Get a Crew.And Make It Happen":
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and New Media's Potential for
Self-Definition Phillip Lamarr Cunningham 24. Performing "Blackness":
Barack Obama, Sport, and the Mediated Politics of Identity Michael D.
Giardina and Kyle S. Bunds Epilogue: "New Normal" in American Television?
Race, Gender, Blackness, and the New Racism Paula Groves Price About the
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