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- catalog abstract ""This book examines the representation of blackness on television at the height of the southern civil rights movement and again in the aftermath of the Reagan-Bush years. In the process, it looks carefully at how television's ideological projects with respect to race have supported or conflicted with the industry's incentive to maximize profits or consolidate power. Sasha Torres examines the complex relations between the television industry and the civil rights movement as a knot of overlapping interests. She argues that television coverage of the civil rights movement during 1955-65 encouraged viewers to identify with black protestors and against white police, including such infamous villains as Birmingham's Bull Connor and Selma's Jim Clark. Torres then argues that television of the 1990s encouraged viewers to identify with police against putatively criminal blacks, even in its dramatizations of police brutality. Torres's pioneering analysis makes distinctive contributions to its fields. It challenges television scholars to consider the historical centrality of race to the constitution of the medium's genres, visual conventions, and industrial structures. And it displaces the analytical focus on stereotypes that has hamstrung assessments of television's depiction of African Americans, concentrating instead on the ways in which African Americans and their political collectives have shaped that depiction to advance civil rights causes. This book also challenges African American studies to pay closer and better attention to television's ongoing role in the organization and disorganization of U.S. racial politics."--Book cover, p. [4].".
- catalog contributor b12782135.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""This book examines the representation of blackness on television at the height of the southern civil rights movement and again in the aftermath of the Reagan-Bush years. In the process, it looks carefully at how television's ideological projects with respect to race have supported or conflicted with the industry's incentive to maximize profits or consolidate power. Sasha Torres examines the complex relations between the television industry and the civil rights movement as a knot of overlapping interests. She argues that television coverage of the civil rights movement during 1955-65 encouraged viewers to identify with black protestors and against white police, including such infamous villains as Birmingham's Bull Connor and Selma's Jim Clark. Torres then argues that television of the 1990s encouraged viewers to identify with police against putatively criminal blacks, even in its dramatizations of police brutality. Torres's pioneering analysis makes distinctive contributions to its fields. It challenges television scholars to consider the historical centrality of race to the constitution of the medium's genres, visual conventions, and industrial structures. And it displaces the analytical focus on stereotypes that has hamstrung assessments of television's depiction of African Americans, concentrating instead on the ways in which African Americans and their political collectives have shaped that depiction to advance civil rights causes. This book also challenges African American studies to pay closer and better attention to television's ongoing role in the organization and disorganization of U.S. racial politics."--Book cover, p. [4].".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-136) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction. The vicissitudes of the stereotype -- Issues and some answers -- Television and conservative racial projects after the '60s -- "In a crisis we must have a sense of drama": civil rights and televisual information. The burden of liveness -- "Pictures are the point of television news" -- "We have shut ourselves off from the rest of the world" -- "That cycle of violence and publicity" -- "The vehemence of a dream" -- The double life of "Sit-in". "Sit-in"'s industrial context -- "Sit-in" flashes back -- "Sit-in" as a movement text -- "Sit-in" and Black idiom -- King TV. Rodney King live -- Liveness : an ideology of television and race -- L.A. law and televisual justice -- Doogie Howser, M.D., and televisual instruction -- Rodney King dead -- Giuliani time : urban policing and Brooklyn south. Cops and cop shows -- Giuliani time -- How to identify with the cops -- Good cop, bad cop -- Civil rights, done and undone. "A virtual whitewash in programming" -- Malcom X on TV -- The Nick Styles show -- Video surveillance and counterspectatorship.".
- catalog extent "xii, 140 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691016577 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0691016585 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "070.1/95 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Press coverage History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans on television.".
- catalog subject "PN1992.8.A34 T67 2003".
- catalog subject "Television broadcasting of news United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction. The vicissitudes of the stereotype -- Issues and some answers -- Television and conservative racial projects after the '60s -- "In a crisis we must have a sense of drama": civil rights and televisual information. The burden of liveness -- "Pictures are the point of television news" -- "We have shut ourselves off from the rest of the world" -- "That cycle of violence and publicity" -- "The vehemence of a dream" -- The double life of "Sit-in". "Sit-in"'s industrial context -- "Sit-in" flashes back -- "Sit-in" as a movement text -- "Sit-in" and Black idiom -- King TV. Rodney King live -- Liveness : an ideology of television and race -- L.A. law and televisual justice -- Doogie Howser, M.D., and televisual instruction -- Rodney King dead -- Giuliani time : urban policing and Brooklyn south. Cops and cop shows -- Giuliani time -- How to identify with the cops -- Good cop, bad cop -- Civil rights, done and undone. "A virtual whitewash in programming" -- Malcom X on TV -- The Nick Styles show -- Video surveillance and counterspectatorship.".
- catalog title "Black, white, and in color : television and black civil rights / by Sasha Torres.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".