Ann Ducille

Technicolored

Reflections on Race in the Time of TV

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Produktbeschreibung

Ann duCille is Emerita Professor of English at Wesleyan University and author of Skin Trade and The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000488
• ISBN-10: 1478000481
• Artikelnr.: 49557619

Autorenporträt

Ann duCille

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life  1
1. What's in a Game? Quiz Shows and the "Prism of Race"  22
2. "Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear": Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise
of Technicolored TV  52
3. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two  83
4. Interracial Loving: Sexless in the Suburbs of the 1960s  112
5. "A Credit to My Race": Acting Black and Black Acting from Julia to
Scandal  134
6. A Clear and Present Absence: Perry Mason and the Case of the Missing
"Minorities"  159
7. "Soaploitation": Getting Away with Murder in Primetime  183
8. The Punch and Judge Judy Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day
in Court  209
9. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics
of Palatability  232
10. The "Thug Default": Why Racial Representation Still Matters  261
Epilogue. Final Spin: "That's Not My Food"  285
Notes  289
Bibliography  311
Index  325