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Watching while black : centering the television of black audiences / edited by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade.

Contributor(s): Smith-Shomade, Beretta E, 1965-Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: 45305ISBN: 9780813553887 (e-book)Subject(s): African Americans on television | African American television viewers | Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Watching while black : centering the television of black audiences.DDC classification: 791.45/08996073 LOC classification: PN1992.8.A34 | W38 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: I see black people / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade -- Producing blackness. The importance of Roots / Eric Pierson -- Two different worlds: television as a producer's medium / Robin R. Means Coleman and Andre M. Cavalcante -- A black cast doesn't make a black show: City of angels and the plausible deniability of colorblindness / Kristen J. Warner -- Blacks in the future: braving the frontier of the web series / Christine Acham -- Blackness on demand. "Regular television put to shame by negro production": picturing a black world on Black journal / Devorah Heitner -- "Hey, hey hey!": Bill Cosby's Fat Albert as psychodynamic postmodern play / TreaAndrea M. Russworm -- Gimme a break and the limits of the modern mammy / Jennifer Fuller -- Down in the Treme- buck jumping and having fun?: the impact of depictions of post-Katrina New Orleans on viewers' perceptions of the city / Kim M. LeDuff -- New Jack Black. Keepin' it reality television / Racquel Gates -- Prioritized: the hip hop (re)construction of black womanhood in Girlfriends and The game / Nghana Lewis -- Nigger, coon, boy, homo, faggot, black man: reconsidering established interpretations of masculinity, race and sexuality through Noah's arc / Mark D. Cunningham -- Graphic blackness/anime noir: Aaron McGruder's The boondocks & the Adult Swim / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- Worldwide blackness. Resistance televised: the TV da Gente Television Network and Brazilian racial politics / Reighan Alexandra Gillam -- South African soapies: a "rainbow nation" realized? / Nsenga K. Burton -- Minority television trade as cultural journey: the case of New Zealand's Brotown / Timothy Havens.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: I see black people / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade -- Producing blackness. The importance of Roots / Eric Pierson -- Two different worlds: television as a producer's medium / Robin R. Means Coleman and Andre M. Cavalcante -- A black cast doesn't make a black show: City of angels and the plausible deniability of colorblindness / Kristen J. Warner -- Blacks in the future: braving the frontier of the web series / Christine Acham -- Blackness on demand. "Regular television put to shame by negro production": picturing a black world on Black journal / Devorah Heitner -- "Hey, hey hey!": Bill Cosby's Fat Albert as psychodynamic postmodern play / TreaAndrea M. Russworm -- Gimme a break and the limits of the modern mammy / Jennifer Fuller -- Down in the Treme- buck jumping and having fun?: the impact of depictions of post-Katrina New Orleans on viewers' perceptions of the city / Kim M. LeDuff -- New Jack Black. Keepin' it reality television / Racquel Gates -- Prioritized: the hip hop (re)construction of black womanhood in Girlfriends and The game / Nghana Lewis -- Nigger, coon, boy, homo, faggot, black man: reconsidering established interpretations of masculinity, race and sexuality through Noah's arc / Mark D. Cunningham -- Graphic blackness/anime noir: Aaron McGruder's The boondocks & the Adult Swim / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- Worldwide blackness. Resistance televised: the TV da Gente Television Network and Brazilian racial politics / Reighan Alexandra Gillam -- South African soapies: a "rainbow nation" realized? / Nsenga K. Burton -- Minority television trade as cultural journey: the case of New Zealand's Brotown / Timothy Havens.

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CHOICE Review

Rather than simply cataloging and critiquing representations of black characters in mainstream (i.e., predominately white) network and cable television, this collection of essays concentrates on black cast television targeted at black audiences. Using a variety of approaches, these scholars bring much-needed attention and analysis to recent shows such as Girlfriends, The Game, and The Boondocks as well as reconsiderations of older television texts such as Roots, A Different World, and Fat Albert that attempted to reach black audiences while also navigating the ratings game by appealing to white audiences. The book's contributors, both young and established, highlight the ways that blackness is articulated in a television landscape where it is typically either absent or rendered as tokenism. As it addresses US network and cable television as well as global television, this book will provide scholars interested in black television with valuable historical, theoretical, and critical material and demonstrate useful approaches for further research. This is sure to be an essential text. Summing Up: Essential. Undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. S. Pepper Northeastern Illinois University

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