Adjusting the contrast : British television and constructs of race /

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Through contextual and textual analyses, this title explores a range of texts and practices that address the ongoing phenomenon of race and its relationship to television. Chapters explore policies and the management of race; transnationalism and racial diversity; historical questions of representat...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Malik, Sarita (Editor), Newton, Darrell M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Minorities on television.
Race on television.
Television programs > Great Britain.
Television broadcasting > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Minorités à la télévision.
Race à la télévision.
Émissions télévisées > Grande-Bretagne.
Télévision > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > General.
Minorities on television
Race on television
Television broadcasting > Social aspects
Television programs
Great Britain
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A little Brit different? BBC America and transnational constructs of Britishness / Darrell M. Newton
  • Scheduling race / Anamik Saha
  • Reframing the 1950s: race and representation in recent British television: / James Burton
  • Black British drama, losses and gains: the case of Shoot the Messenger / Sarita Malik
  • The iconic ghetto on British television: Black representation and Top Boy / Kehinde Andrews
  • Whiteness, normativity and the ongoing racial Other: imperial fictions: Doctor Who, post-racial slavery and other liberal humanist fantasies / Susana Loza
  • Myth of a multicultural England in BBC's Luther / Nicole M. Jackson
  • Framing The Fosters: jokes, racism and Black and Asian voices in British comedy television / Gavin Schaffer.

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