Technicolored : Reflections on Race in the Time of TV /
"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 disposa...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Black and white and technicolored: channeling the TV life
- What's in a game?: quiz shows and the "prism of race"
- "Those thrilling days of yesteryear": stigmatic blackness and the rise of technicolored TV
- The Shirley Temple of my familiar: take two
- Interracial loving: sexlessness in the suburbs of the 1960s
- "A credit to my race": acting Black and Black acting from Julia to Scandal
- A clear and present absence: Perry Mason and the case of the missing "minorities"
- "Soaploitation": getting away with murder in primetime
- The Punch and Judge Judy shows: really real TV and the dangers of a day in court
- The autumn of his discontent: Bill Cosby, fatherhood, and the politics of palatability
- The "thug default": why racial representation still matters
- Epilogue : Final spin: "That's not my food."