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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith-Shomade, Beretta E., 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans on television.

African American television viewers.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.

Television broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 267 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2012.

Summary:

"Watching While Black exclusively considers and critically engages programs that Black audiences watch and enjoy. With fresh perspectives, contributors both expose and introduce programming targeted at very specific and under-examined Black demographics. Cutting across forty years of Black television, the book looks at behind-the-scenes practices, significant historical texts, twenty-first century shows, and programs produced for Black audiences around the world."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: I see black people / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade

Part I: 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

Part II: 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

Part III: 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

Part IV: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8135-5388-1

OCLC:

867741581