Technicolored - Reflections on Race in the Time of TV

Ann duCille is Emerita Professor of English at Wesleyan University and author of Skin Trade and The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life  1
1. What's in a Game? Quiz Shows and the "Prism of Race"  22
2. "Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear": Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise of Technicolored TV  52
3. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two  83
4. Interracial Loving: Sexless in the Suburbs of the 1960s  112
5. "A Credit to My Race": Acting Black and Black Acting from Julia to Scandal  134
6. A Clear and Present Absence: Perry Mason and the Case of the Missing "Minorities"  159
7. "Soaploitation": Getting Away with Murder in Primetime  183
8. The Punch and Judge Judy Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day in Court  209
9. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Palatability  232
10. The "Thug Default": Why Racial Representation Still Matters  261
Epilogue. Final Spin: "That's Not My Food"  285
Notes  289
Bibliography  311
Index  325

About the author

Ann duCille

Product details

• Authors: Ann Ducille
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781478000396
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0039-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Camera Obscura Book; a Camera Obscura book; A Camera Obscura Book; Camera Obscura Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore