Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Leonard, David J[Herausgeber]
• Guerrero, Lisa[Herausgeber]

Titel

African Americans on television : race-ing for ratings [Elektronische Ressource]

Ort / Verlag

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

  Zugriff nur im Hochschulnetz der Universität Paderborn bzw. für autorisierte Benutzer

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes index
• Introduction: our regularly scheduled program / David J. Leonard and Lisa A. Guerrero -- Consciousness on television: black power and mainstream narratives / David J. Leonard -- An interview with John Amos / Tammy Brown -- Looking for Lionel: making whiteness and blackness in All in the family and The Jeffersons / Lisa Woolfork -- What's your name? Roots, race, and popular memory in post-civil rights America / C. Richard King -- More serious than money: on Our gang, Diff'rent strokes, and Webster / Jared Sexton -- Post-racial, post civil rights: The Cosby show and the national Imagination / David J. Leonard -- A different sort of blackness: a different world in a post Cosby landscape / David J. Leonard -- Just another family comedy: The fresh prince of Bel Air, Family matters / Shiron V. Patterson -- Single black female: representing the modern black woman in "Living single" / Lisa A. Guerrero --^
• The black family in the new millennium: Bernie Mac, My wife and kids, and Everybody hates Chris / Qiana M. Cutts -- Blackness and children's programming: Sesame Street, A.N.T. Farm and The LeBrons / David J. Leonard -- "Black" comedy: the serious business of humor in In living color, Chappelle's show, and The Boondocks / Lisa A. Guerrero -- Selling blackness: commercials? hip hop athletes hocking products / Regina Bradley -- The queen of television: Oprah Winfrey in relation to self and as a cultural icon / Billye N. Rhodes and Kristal Moore Clemons -- Tyler Perry takes over TV / Bettina L. Love -- B(l)ack in the kitchen: Food Network / Lisa A. Guerrero -- Ratchet responsibility: the struggle of representation and black entertainment television / Kristen J. Warner -- White authorship and the counterfeit politics of versimilitude on The wire / MichaelJohnson -- Representations of representation: urban life and media in season five of The wire / Bhoomi K. Thakore --^
• La-La's fundamental rupture: True blood's Lafayette and the deconstruction of normal / Kaila Adia Story -- Can the black woman shout?: a meditation on "Real" and utopian depictions of African American women on television / Rebecca Wanzo -- Scandal and black women in television / Kwakiutl L. Dreher -- Get a crew and make it happen: misadventures of awkward black girl and new media's potential for self-definition / Phillip Lamarr Cunningham -- Performing "blackness": Barack Obama, sport, and the mediated politics of identity / Michael D. Giardina and Kyle S. Bunds -- "New normal" in American television? race, gender, blackness, and the new racism / Paula Groves Price
• Includes bibliographical references and index