Watching While Black Centering the Television of Black Audiences

Name: Watching While Black Centering the Television of Black Audiences
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ISBN: 9780813553863

ISBN-10: 0813553865

ISBN-13: 9780813553863

Edition: 2012

Authors: Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, Christine Acham, Mark D. Cunningham, Timothy Havens, Nghana Lewis

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Television scholarship has substantially ignored programming aimed at Black audiences despite a few sweeping histories and critiques. In this volume, the first of its kind, contributors examine the televisual diversity, complexity, and cultural imperatives manifest in programming directed at a Black and marginalized audience. Watching While Blackconsiders its subject from an entirely new angle in an attempt to understand the lives, motivations, distinctions, kindred lines, and individuality of various Black groups and suggest what television might be like if such diversity permeated beyond specialized enclaves. It looks at the macro structures of ownership, producing, casting, and…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 1/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Beretta E. Smith-Shomade is Assistant Professor of Media Arts at the University of Arizona. She also works as a video documentary producer. She is author of Shaded Lives: African American Women and Television.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: I See Black People




Producing Blackness



The Importance of Roots




Two Different Worlds: Television as a Producer's Medium




A Black Cast Doesn't Make a Black Show: City of Angels and the Plausible Deniability of Color-blindness




Blacks in the Future: Braving the Frontier of the Web Series




Blackness on Demand



"Regular Television Put to Shame by Negro Production": Picturing a Black World on Black Journal




"Hey, Hey, Hey!" Bill Cosby's Fat Albert as Psychodynamic Postmodern Play




Gimme a Break! and the Limits of the Modem Mammy




Down in the Treme… Buck Jumping and Having Fun?: The Impact of Depictions of Post-Katrina New Orleans on Viewers' Perceptions of the City




New Jack Black



Keepin' It Reality Television




Prioritized: The Hip Hop (Re)Construction of Black Womanhood in Girlfriends and The Game




Nigger, Coon, Boy, Punk, Homo, Faggot, Black Man: Reconsidering Established Interpretations of Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality Through Noah's Arc




Graphic Blackness/Anime Noir: Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks and the Adult Swim




Worldwide Blackness



Resistance Televised: The TV da Gente Television Network and Brazilian Racial Politics




South African Soapies: A "Rainbow Nation" Realized?




Minority Television Trade as Cultural Journey: The Case of New Zealand's bro'Town



Notes on Contributors


Index