Technicolored : reflections on race in the time of TV /
DuCille, Ann,
Technicolored : reflections on race in the time of TV / Ann duCille. - xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - A Camera Obscura book . - Camera obscura book (Duke University Press) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index.
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".
9781478000396 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 9781478000488 (softcover : acid-free paper)
2018008223
African Americans on television.
Race on television.
Racism on television.
Television programs--United States.
PN1992.8.A34 / D83 2018
791.4508996073
Technicolored : reflections on race in the time of TV / Ann duCille. - xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - A Camera Obscura book . - Camera obscura book (Duke University Press) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index.
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".
9781478000396 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 9781478000488 (softcover : acid-free paper)
2018008223
African Americans on television.
Race on television.
Racism on television.
Television programs--United States.
PN1992.8.A34 / D83 2018
791.4508996073