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Zusatztext Ambitious in scope and intimate in detail, Anderson’s book provides a needed perspective on seven decades of Black women who navigated and changed the landscape of American television. Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape is a roadmap for how Black women actors, directors, producers, writers, and showrunners actually changed the landscape so that others can lead the way forward. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Vorwort Chronicles the gradual shifts in television representation since the 1950s, arguing that it is the presence of Black women artists that leads to changes in representation. Zusammenfassung Chronicles the gradual shifts in television representation since the 1950s, arguing that it is the presence of Black women artists that leads to changes in representation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
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Lisa M. Anderson
