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

Contributor(s): Smith-Shomade, Beretta E, 1965-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813553887Subject(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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