Gender and Race in Postwar Variety Television - Colorful Performance

This book looks at how variety television articulated a cosmopolitanism that served to expand televisual constructions of gender and race in the postwar period, demonstrating how the entertaining of racial and ethnic identities by white variety show hosts was achieved through the featuring of people of color, musical performances, and representations of travel--simulated and actual.

List of contents

Introduction - Recovering the Variety of Postwar Television
1. "Come on-a My House": Hosting and Intimacy
2. "Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark": Race and Racism on Primetime TV
3. "C'est la TV": Small Screen Glamour and Fashioning Cosmopolitanism
4. Getting to Know You: Variety Television and the Cold War Project
5. "Your generation gap is showing": Costume Changes and Keeping up with Youth Culture
Conclusion - Tonight Goes back to The Roots

About the author

Meenasarani Linde Murugan is Assistant Professor of Screen Studies in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, USA　

Summary

This book looks at how variety television articulated a cosmopolitanism that served to expand televisual constructions of gender and race in the postwar period, demonstrating how the entertaining of racial and ethnic identities by white variety show hosts was achieved through the featuring of people of color, musical performances, and representations of travel--simulated and actual.

Product details

• Authors: Meenasarani Linde Murugan, Meenasarani Linde (Fordham University Murugan, Murugan Meenasarani Linde
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.05.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9781138206502
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20650-2
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media; Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Popular Culture, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, The Americas, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General