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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: DuCille, Ann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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."