Color By Fox - The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television

Zusatztext Zook's analysis is both judicious and fascinating. A journalist by profession! Zook integrates a decade's worth of behind-the-scenes reporting and interviews into a cogent and fluid writing style ... Zook arrays a wealth of material and admirably struggles with the polysemy of black television. Informationen zum Autor Freelance writer and independent scholar. Klappentext This is a fascinating examination of the explosion of black television programming in the 1980s and 1990s. Locating a persistent black nationalist desire - yearning for home and community - in the shows produced by and for African Americans in this period! Zook shows how the Fox hip-hop sitcom both reinforced and rebelled against earlier black sitcoms from the sixties and seventies. Zusammenfassung This is a fascinating examination of the explosion of black television programming in the 1980s and 1990s. Locating a persistent black nationalist desire -- yearning for home and community -- in the shows produced by and for African Americans in this period, Zook shows how the Fox hip-hop sitcom both reinforced and rebelled against earlier black sitcoms from the sixties and seventies.

Product details

• Authors: Kristal Brent Zook, Zook Kristal Brent
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.1999
• EAN: 9780195105483
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510548-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series; W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Hard; The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; USA, Ethnic Studies, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, United States of America, USA, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General