Representations of Black Womanhood on Television
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9268-0 (ISBN)
Being Mara Brock Akil: Representations of Black Womanhood on Television examines the body of work of Mara Brock Akil, the showrunner who produced Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane, and Love Is__. The contributions to this volume are theoretically anchored in Patricia Hill Collin’s Black Feminist Thought, with a focus on how Brock Akil’s shows intentionally address Black humanity and specifically provide context for Black women’s lived experiences and empathy for Black womanhood by featuring woman-centered characters with flaws, strength, and complexity. Shauntae Brown White and Kandace L. Harris have compiled a volume that analyzes themes that define Black womanhood and examines audience reception of and social media interaction with Brock Akil’s work.
Kandace L. Harris is special assistant to the president and associate professor of mass communication and media studies at Shaw University. Shauntae Brown White is coordinator of the Women's and Gender Studies program and associate professor in the Department of Mass Communication at North Carolina Central University.
Introduction: Being Mara
Chapter 1: ‘Girlfriends - There, Through Thick and Thin!’: African American Female Sisterhood and the Quest for Happiness
Chapter 2: Professional Success, Personal Turmoil: The Black Working Woman Image in Girlfriends
Chapter 3: Real, Respectable, or Both: Respectability on Being Mary Jane through the Words of Mara Brock Akil
Chapter 4: ‘Girl, You Know I Got You:’ The Ideology of Sisterhood on Being Mary Jane
Chapter 5: What Love Is and Is Not: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Chapter 6: Navigating The Game of Life: Women Viewers & The Game
Chapter 7: Social Networks, Television and Black Women: An Analysis of Facebook Representations of Being Mary Jane
Chapter 8: Social TV and Stereotypes: The Social Construction of #BeingMaryJane on Twitter
Chapter 9: @MaraAkil: An Analysis of the Mara’s Balance of Life, Family and Production on Instagram
Afterword
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Co-Autor | Imani M. Cheers, Kandace L. Harris, Tina M. Harris |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 218 mm |
| Gewicht | 304 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-9268-6 / 1498592686 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-9268-0 / 9781498592680 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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