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African Americans on Television

David J. Leonard,Lisa Guerrero
African Americans on Television Book PDF

Author : David J. Leonard,Lisa Guerrero
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780275995140

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African Americans on Television by David J. Leonard,Lisa Guerrero Pdf

A comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the broader social implications of the relationship between race and popular culture as well as race and representation. Previous treatments of the history of African Americans in television have largely lacked theoretical analysis of the relationship between representations and social contexts. African Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings fills the existing void by supplying fundamental history with critical analyses of the racial politics of television, documenting the considerable effect that television has had on popular notions of black identity in America since the inception of television. Covering a spectrum of genres—comedy, drama, talk shows, television movies, variety shows, and reality television, including shows such as Good Times, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Chappelle's Show—this insightful work traces a cultural genealogy of African Americans in television. Its chronological analysis provides an engaging historical account of how African Americans entered the genre of television and have continued to play a central role in the development of both the medium and the industry. The book also tracks the shift in the significance of African Americans in the television market and industry, and the changing, but enduring, face of stereotypes and racism in American television culture.

Blacks and White TV

J. Fred MacDonald
Blacks and White TV Book PDF

Author : J. Fred MacDonald
Publisher : Burnham, Incorporated
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : African Americans in television broadcasting
ISBN : UCSC:32106016651314

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Blacks and White TV by J. Fred MacDonald Pdf

The second edition of this powerful analysis of African-Americans in the television insudtry since 1948 is completely updated. The increased visibility of blacks in television, the success of the Cosby Show and other sitcoms featuring black actors, and the impact of cable TV on programming are described in detail. Professor MacDonald traces the stereotyping, tokenism, and unfair treatment of blacks from the early days of the indsutry, but expresses his hope and belief that a new video order is materializing that will finally fulfill the bright promise of television.

Primetime Blues

Donald Bogle
Primetime Blues Book PDF

Author : Donald Bogle
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781466894457

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Primetime Blues by Donald Bogle Pdf

A landmark study by the leading critic of African American film and television Primetime Blues is the first comprehensive history of African Americans on network television. Donald Bogle examines the stereotypes, which too often continue to march across the screen today, but also shows the ways in which television has been invigorated by extraordinary black performers, whose presence on the screen has been of great significance to the African American community. Bogle's exhaustive study moves from the postwar era of Beulah and Amos 'n' Andy to the politically restless sixties reflected in I Spy and an edgy, ultra-hip program like Mod Squad. He examines the television of the seventies, when a nation still caught up in Vietnam and Watergate retreated into the ethnic humor of Sanford and Son and Good Times and the poltically conservative eighties marked by the unexpected success of The Cosby Show and the emergence of deracialized characters on such dramatic series as L.A. Law. Finally, he turns a critical eye to the television landscape of the nineties, with shows such as The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, I'll Fly Away, ER, and The Steve Harvey Show. Note: The ebook edition does not include photos.

African Americans in Television

Gregory Adamo
African Americans in Television Book PDF

Author : Gregory Adamo
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African American television producers and directors
ISBN : 1433110393

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African Americans in Television by Gregory Adamo Pdf

"This book explores television and race from the persepctive of industry writers, producers, directors, and executives. Listening to those directly involved in bringing diversity to television helps uncover the process whereby difference is created and recreated in both the workplace, and on the television screen."--Back cover.

Blacks in American Films and Television

Donald Bogle
Blacks in American Films and Television Book PDF

Author : Donald Bogle
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009030086

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Blacks in American Films and Television by Donald Bogle Pdf

Encyclopedia of blacks in the motion picture and television industry over the past 90 years with over 200 rare photographs.

Black, White, and in Color

Sasha Torres
Black White and in Color Book PDF

Author : Sasha Torres
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691186375

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Black, White, and in Color by Sasha Torres Pdf

This book examines the representation of blackness on television at the height of the southern civil rights movement and again in the aftermath of the Reagan-Bush years. In the process, it looks carefully at how television's ideological projects with respect to race have supported or conflicted with the industry's incentive to maximize profits or consolidate power. Sasha Torres examines the complex relations between the television industry and the civil rights movement as a knot of overlapping interests. She argues that television coverage of the civil rights movement during 1955-1965 encouraged viewers to identify with black protestors and against white police, including such infamous villains as Birmingham's Bull Connor and Selma's Jim Clark. Torres then argues that television of the 1990s encouraged viewers to identify with police against putatively criminal blacks, even in its dramatizations of police brutality. Torres's pioneering analysis makes distinctive contributions to its fields. It challenges television scholars to consider the historical centrality of race to the constitution of the medium's genres, visual conventions, and industrial structures. And it displaces the analytical focus on stereotypes that has hamstrung assessments of television's depiction of African Americans, concentrating instead on the ways in which African Americans and their political collectives have actively shaped that depiction to advance civil rights causes. This book also challenges African American studies to pay closer and better attention to television's ongoing role in the organization and disorganization of U.S. racial politics.

Black Television Travels

Timothy Havens
Black Television Travels Book PDF

Author : Timothy Havens
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814760765

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Black Television Travels by Timothy Havens Pdf

“Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses—including industry lore, taste cultures, and the multiple stories of black experiences that have and have not made it onto the small screen—Havens complicates discussions of racial representation and exposes possibilities for more expansive representations of blackness while recognizing the limitations of the seemingly liberatory spaces created by globalization.” —Bambi Haggins, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University “A major achievement that makes important contributions to the analysis of race, identity, global media, nation, and television production cultures. Discussions of race and television are too often constricted within national boundaries, yet this fantastic book offers a strong, compelling, and utterly refreshing corrective. Read it, assign it, use it.” —Jonathan Gray, author of Television Entertainment, Television Studies, and Show Sold Separately 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 recognize the potential popularity of black characters and themes, both at home and abroad. As American television brokers increasingly seek revenues abroad, their assumptions about saleability and audience perceptions directly influence the global circulation of these programs, as well as their content. Black Television Travels aims to reclaim the history of African American television circulation in an effort to correct and counteract this predominant industry lore. Based on interviews with television executives and programmers from around the world, as well as producers in the United States, Havens traces the shift from an era when national television networks often blocked African American television from traveling abroad to the transnational, post-network era of today. While globalization has helped to expand diversity in African American television, particularly in regard to genre, it has also resulted in restrictions, such as in the limited portrayal of African American women in favor of attracting young male demographics across racial and national boundaries. Havens underscores the importance of examining boardroom politics as part of racial discourse in the late modern era, when transnational cultural industries like television are the primary sources for dominant representations of blackness.

Historical Dictionary of African American Television

Kathleen Fearn-Banks,Anne Burford-Johnson
Historical Dictionary of African American Television Book PDF

Author : Kathleen Fearn-Banks,Anne Burford-Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810879171

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Historical Dictionary of African American Television by Kathleen Fearn-Banks,Anne Burford-Johnson Pdf

This second edition covers the history of African Americans on television from the beginning of national television through the present day including: chronology; introductory essay appendixes bibliography over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors, performers, producers, directors, news and sports journalists

Color by Fox

Kristal Brent Zook
Color by Fox Book PDF

Author : Kristal Brent Zook
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195355659

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Color by Fox by Kristal Brent Zook Pdf

Following the overwhelming success of "The Cosby Show" in the 1980s, an unprecedented shift took place in television history: white executives turned to black dollars as a way of salvaging network profits lost in the war against video cassettes and cable T.V. Not only were African-American viewers watching disproportionately more network television than the general population but, as Nielsen finally realized, they preferred black shows. As a result, African-American producers, writers, directors, and stars were given an unusual degree of creative control over shows such as "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air," "Roc," "Living Single," and "New York Undercover". What emerged were radical representations of African-American memory and experience. Offering a fascinating examination of the explosion of black television programming in the 1980s and 1990s, this book provides, for the first time ever, an interpretation of black TV based in both journalism and critical theory. Locating a persistent black nationalist desire--a yearning for home and community--in the shows produced by and for African-Americans in this period, Kristal Brent Zook shows how the Fox hip-hop sitcom both reinforced and rebelled against earlier black sitcoms from the sixties and seventies. Incorporating interviews with such prominent executives, producers, and stars as Keenen Ivory Wayans, Sinbad, Quincy Jones, Robert Townsend, Charles Dutton, Yvette Lee Bowser, and Ralph Farquhar, this study looks at both production and reception among African-American viewers, providing nuanced readings of the shows themselves as well as the sociopolitical contexts in which they emerged. While black TV during this period may seem trivial or buffoonish to some, Color by Fox reveals its deep-rooted ties to African-American protest literature and autobiography, and a desire for social transformation.

Race in American Television [2 volumes]

David J. Leonard,Stephanie Troutman Robbins
Race in American Television 2 volumes Book PDF

Author : David J. Leonard,Stephanie Troutman Robbins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 901 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216135074

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Race in American Television [2 volumes] by David J. Leonard,Stephanie Troutman Robbins Pdf

This two-volume encyclopedia explores representations of people of color in American television. It includes overview essays on early, classic, and contemporary television and the challenges for, developments related to, and participation of minorities on and behind the screen. Covering five decades, this encyclopedia highlights how race has shaped television and how television has shaped society. Offering critical analysis of moments and themes throughout television history, Race in American Television shines a spotlight on key artists of color, prominent shows, and the debates that have defined television since the civil rights movement. This book also examines the ways in which television has been a site for both reproduction of stereotypes and resistance to them, providing a basis for discussion about racial issues in the United States. This set provides a significant resource for students and fans of television alike, not only educating but also empowering readers with the necessary tools to consume and watch the small screen and explore its impact on the evolution of racial and ethnic stereotypes in U.S. culture and beyond. Understanding the history of American television contributes to deeper knowledge and potentially helps us to better apprehend the plethora of diverse shows and programs on Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and other platforms today.

Cultural Moves

Herman Gray
Cultural Moves Book PDF

Author : Herman Gray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520241442

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Cultural Moves by Herman Gray Pdf

"Examines the importance of culture in the push for black political power and social recognition and argues the key black cultural practices have been notable in reconfiguring the shape and texture of social and cultural life in the U.S. Drawing on examples from jazz, television, and academia, Gray highlights cultural strategies for inclusion in the dominant culture as well as cultural tactics that move beyond the quest for mere recognition by challenging, disrupting, and unsettling dominant cultural representations and institutions. In the end, Gray challenges the conventional wisdom about the centrality of representation and politics in black cultural production"--Provided by publisher.

I See Black People

Kristal Brent Zook
I See Black People Book PDF

Author : Kristal Brent Zook
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131686748

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I See Black People by Kristal Brent Zook Pdf

"I See Black People" is a narrative history of the behind-the-scenes politics of black television and radio ownership, including the stories of the failure of the Black Famlly Channel, The World African Network, and Russell Simmons Fabulous TV, as well as that of Catherine Hughes, who'd aggressively acquired radio stations, becoming the first black woman to head a firm that publicly traded on the stock exchange. While securing its place in the marketplace, the company is now 20 percent black owned. By offering insights into the failure of public policy that have impeded black access to ownership through the last thirty years, the author explores that current state of black media and questions its direction.

Watching Race

Herman Gray
Watching Race Book PDF

Author : Herman Gray
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816645108

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Watching Race by Herman Gray Pdf

"With a new introduction, Herman Gray's classic investigation of television and race shows how the meaning of blackness on-screen has changed over the years by examining the portrayal of blacks on series such as The Jack Benny Show and Amos 'n' Andy, continuing through The Cosby Show and In Living Color."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

African Americans on Television

David J. Leonard,Lisa Guerrero
African Americans on Television Book PDF

Author : David J. Leonard,Lisa Guerrero
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216043348

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African Americans on Television by David J. Leonard,Lisa Guerrero Pdf

A comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the broader social implications of the relationship between race and popular culture as well as race and representation. Previous treatments of the history of African Americans in television have largely lacked theoretical analysis of the relationship between representations and social contexts. African Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings fills the existing void by supplying fundamental history with critical analyses of the racial politics of television, documenting the considerable effect that television has had on popular notions of black identity in America since the inception of television. Covering a spectrum of genres—comedy, drama, talk shows, television movies, variety shows, and reality television, including shows such as Good Times, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Chappelle's Show—this insightful work traces a cultural genealogy of African Americans in television. Its chronological analysis provides an engaging historical account of how African Americans entered the genre of television and have continued to play a central role in the development of both the medium and the industry. The book also tracks the shift in the significance of African Americans in the television market and industry, and the changing, but enduring, face of stereotypes and racism in American television culture.

Living Color

Sasha Torres
Living Color Book PDF

Author : Sasha Torres
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822321955

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Living Color by Sasha Torres Pdf

Recent media events like the beating of Rodney King and the murder trial of O.J. Simpson have trained our collective eye on the televised spectacle of race. LIVING COLOR combines media studies, cultural studies, and critical race theory to investigate the representation of race on American television. LIVING COLOR makes explicit the centrality of race and ethnicity to American life. 54 photos.