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Color adjustment / Signifyin' Works ; producers, Marlon Riggs and Vivian Kleiman ; director Marlon Riggs.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Black America emerges
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in television broadcasting--United States.
- African Americans in television broadcasting.
- African Americans in the performing arts--United States.
- African Americans in the performing arts.
- African Americans--Attitudes--History.
- African Americans.
- Documentary films.
- Ethnic attitudes--United States.
- Ethnic attitudes.
- Race discrimination--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.
- Television broadcasting.
- Television broadcasting--United States--History.
- Television programs--United States.
- Television programs.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (80 min.).
- Other Title:
- Color blind TV?
- Coloring the dream.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1991.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- This study of prejudice and perception traces over forty years of race relations in America through the lens of prime time TV entertainment. Black actors Esther Rolle, Diahann Carroll, Denise Nicholas, and Tim Reid and Hollywood producers Norman Lear, Steve Bochco and David Wolper reveal the behind-the-scenes story of how prime time was "integrated." Revisiting such popular hits as Amos and Andy, Beulah, The Nat King Cole Show, Julia, I Spy, Good Times and Roots, viewers see how bitter racial conflict was absorbed into the non-controversial formats of the prime time series.
- Contents:
- Part 1, Color blind TV? (1948-1968)
- part 2, Coloring the dream (1968-1988).
- Notes:
- Documentary.
- Winner George Foster Peabody Award
- Winner Outstanding Achievement Award, International Documentary Association
- Winner Erik Barnouw Award, Organization of American Historians
- OCLC:
- 823894681
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