Technicolored : reflections on race in the time of TV /
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Durham ; London :
Duke University Press,
[2018]
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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".