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Informationen zum Autor Ann duCille Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Black feminist critic Ann duCille combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with TV as a child in the Boston suburbs to examine how televisual representations of African Americans—ranging from I Love Lucy to How to Get Away with Murder—have changed over the last sixty years. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
