Technicolored : reflections on race in the time of TV /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DuCille, Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2018]
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".