In this Book
- Technicolored: Reflections on Race in the Time of TV
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Duke University Press
- Series: a Camera Obscura book
summary
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 minorities. In Technicolored black feminist critic Ann duCille combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with the new medium of TV to examine how televisual representations of African Americans have changed over the last sixty years. Whether explaining how watching Shirley Temple led her to question her own self-worth or how televisual representation functions as a form of racial profiling, duCille traces the real-life social and political repercussions of the portrayal and presence of African Americans on television. Neither a conventional memoir nor a traditional media study, Technicolored offers one lifelong television watcher's careful, personal, and timely analysis of how television continues to shape notions of race in the American imagination.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Epilogue. Final Spin: "That's Not My Food"
- pp. 285-288
- Bibliography
- pp. 311-324
Additional Information
ISBN
9781478002215
Related ISBN(s)
9781478000396, 9781478000488, 9781478090731
MARC Record
OCLC
1061003913
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2020-03-23
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018