Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape

Dr. Lisa M. Anderson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-9363-1 (ISBN)

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Black women’s work in television has been, since the beginning, a negotiation. Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape explores the steps black women, as actors, directors, and producers, have taken to improve representations of black people on the small screen. Beginning with The Beulah Show, Anderson articulates the interrelationship between US culture and the televisual, demonstrating the conditions under which black women particularly, and black people generally, exist in popular culture.

Lisa M. Anderson is an associate professor of women and gender studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, USA. She is the author of Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama (2008) and Mammies No More: The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen (1998). Her research interests include Black feminist speculative fiction and black queer and trans representations.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Dedication

Introduction: An Ambivalent Relationship with Television
1. Fighting the Stereotypes, 1948-52: The Beulah Show and Its Actors
2. Julia, The "Black Lady" of 1960s Television
3. Not Such "Good Times": The Limits of Black Actors' Influence
4. Creating a "Different World" in Television: Black Women Showrunners in the 1990s
5. Twenty-First Century Black Womanhood
Conclusion: Negotiating Hollywood

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2023
Zusatzinfo	8 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5013-9363-4 / 1501393634
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-9363-1 / 9781501393631
Zustand	Neuware