Prime Time Blues: African Americans on Network Television

Prime Time Blues: African Americans on Network Television





The first comprehensive history of African Americans (AA) on the network series. Traces the changing roles of AA on prime-time -- from the blatant stereotypes of TV s early years to the more subtle stereotypes of recent eras. Another important aspect of TV history is that TV has been invigorated by extraordinary Black performers -- from Ethel Waters and Eddie ''Rochester'' Anderson to Cicely Tyson, Flip Wilson, Redd Foxx, and those power brokers Cosby and Oprah -- whose presence has been of enormous significance to the AA community. This study moves from the postwar era of ''Beulah'' and ''Amos 'n' Andy'' all the way through to the '90s. Also examines TV movies and miniseries such as ''The Autobio. of Miss Jane Pittman'' and ''Roots.'' Photos.









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Television and Ethnic Minorities: Producers' Perspectives : A Study of Bbc In-House, Independent and Cable TV Producers





This study focuses on the research literature about television and ethnic minorities. It seeks to go "behind the scenes" and examine from the practioners' perspectives, the production of minority ethnic programmes. It focuses on the roles played by the mass media in maintaining and reproducing racialized discourses, forms of racial inequality and boundaries of ethnic inclusion and exclusion. Rather than being concerned with the level of representations - whether in relation to press and broadcast news, or television, film and other entertainment media and genres - the work is more concerned with the poverty and quality of representations, the narrow band and lack of diversity of character types in comedy and drama, or fetishized within a racialized demonology in factual programming; the negative connotations which such images provoke which lie at the centre of the representation debate in the media mainstream.









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