Technicolored : reflections on race in the time of TV / Ann duCille.
Series: A Camera Obscura book | Camera obscura book (Duke University Press)Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018Description: xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781478000396 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 9781478000488 (softcover : acid-free paper)
- 791.4508996073 23
- PN1992.8.A34 D83 2018
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Book | NMC Library | Stacks | PN1992.8 .A34 D83 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 33039001457364 |
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".
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