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Black television travels : African American media around the globe /

"Black Television Travels explores the globalization of African American television and the way in which foreign markets, programming strategies, and viewer preferences have influenced portrayals of African Americans on the small screen. Television executives have been notoriously slow to recog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Havens, Timothy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; London : New York University Press, [2013]
Colección:Critical cultural communication.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: African American television trade
  • Roots and the perils of African American television drama in a global world
  • Integrated eighties situation comedies and the struggle against apartheid
  • The Cosby show, family themes, and the ascent of white situation comedies abroad in the late 1980s
  • The Fresh prince of Bel-Air, channel fragmentation, and the recognition of difference
  • The worldwide circulation of contemporary African American television
  • Black television from elsewhere: the globalization of non-U.S. Black television
  • Conclusion: transnational televisual aesthetics and global discourses of race.