Historical Dictionary of African American Television

Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Fearn-Banks , a tenured associate professor, joined the faculty of the School of Communications, University of Washington (Seattle) in 1990 after more than 25 years in the communications profession. In addition to being a feature writer at the Los Angeles Time and a news-writer, producer, and a reporter for a Los Angeles network affiliated television station, she also headed, for more than 20 years, nationwide publicity campaigns for NBC Television Network series, specials, and movies. Klappentext This second edition covers the history of African Americans on television from the beginning of national television through the present day including: chronologyintroductory essayappendixesbibliographyover 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors, performers, producers, directors, news and sports journalists Zusammenfassung This second edition covers the history of African Americans on television from the beginning of national television through the present day including: ·chronology·introductory essay·appendixes·bibliography·over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors, performers, producers, directors, news and sports journalists Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Foreword Jon Woronoff Preface Acknowledgments Acronyms and Abbreviations Chronology Introduction THE DICTIONARY Appendixes A Series Rankings and Ratings B Emmy Award Winners C African American Producers D African American Directors Bibliography About the Authors

About the author

Kathleen Fearn-Banks, a tenured associate professor, joined the faculty of the School of Communications, University of Washington (Seattle) in 1990 after more than 25 years in the communications profession. In addition to being a feature writer at the Los Angeles Time and a news-writer, producer, and a reporter for a Los Angeles network affiliated television station, she also headed, for more than 20 years, nationwide publicity campaigns for NBC Television Network series, specials, and movies.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Burford-Johnson, Burford-Johnson Anne, Kathleen Fearn-Banks, Kathleen Burford-Johnson Fearn-Banks, Fearn-Banks Kathleen
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2014
• EAN: 9780810879164
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-7916-4
• No. of pages: 640
• Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts; Historical Dictionaries of Lit; Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; USA, Ethnic Studies, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Reference, Reference works, United States of America, USA, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General