Technicolored

Reflections on Race in the Time of TV

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Ann duCille, Ann Ducille

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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 disposable minorities. In Technicolored black feminist critic Ann duCille combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with the new medium of TV to examine how televisual representations of African Americans have changed over the last sixty years. Whether explaining how watching Shirley Temple led her to question her own self-worth or how televisual representation functions as a form of racial profiling, duCille traces the real-life social and political repercussions of the portrayal and presence of African Americans on television. Neither a conventional memoir nor a traditional media study, Technicolored offers one lifelong television watcher's careful, personal, and timely analysis of how television continues to shape notions of race in the American imagination.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-09-14
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCamera Obscura Book
Antal sidor352
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478000396

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Television inom Kultur
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Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life 11. What's in a Game? Quiz Shows and the "Prism of Race" 222. "Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear": Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise of Technicolored TV 523. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two 834. Interracial Loving: Sexless in the Suburbs of the 1960s 1125. "A Credit to My Race": Acting Black and Black Acting from Julia to Scandal 1346. A Clear and Present Absence: Perry Mason and the Case of the Missing "Minorities" 1597. "Soaploitation": Getting Away with Murder in Primetime 1838. The Punch and Judge Judy Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day in Court 2099. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Palatability 23210. The "Thug Default": Why Racial Representation Still Matters 261Epilogue. Final Spin: "That's Not My Food" 285Notes 289Bibliography 311Index 325

"Ann duCille offers an eloquent analysis of the relationship between representations of people of color and their absence in television from the 1950s to the present. She skillfully blends her comprehensive, historically grounded research with personal memories and her present connection to television. . . . Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." - K. Sorensen (Choice) "In her book Technicolored, Ann duCille deftly blends memoir and television criticism to create an important critical intervention into the study of race and media." - Jacqueline Johnson (Film Quarterly) "Technicolored is a beautifully written and deeply engaging text that makes media criticism available in multiple registers. Media critics, Black Studies scholars, those interested in literary experiments that bridge memoir and theory, and all students of culture will learn considerably from duCille’s achievement." - Michael Litwack (The Black Scholar)