Technicolored : reflections on race in the time of TV /
From early sitcoms such as "I Love Lucy" to contemporary prime-time dramas like "Scandal" and "How to Get Away with Murder," African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as villains, vixens, victims, and disposable min...
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| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | [Open access version]. |
| Series: | Camera obscura book (Duke University Press)
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Table of Contents:
- 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".
