Media and the Affective Life of Slavery

"Allison Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today and delivers vital new ideas about how our feelings about race are governed and normalized by our media landscape. Media and the Affective Life of Slavery argues that visual culture works through emotion, a powerful lever for shaping and managing racialized subjectivity"--

List of contents

Introduction: Racial Formation and Post–Civil Rights Governance
1. “The Restless Black Peril”: Race, Television Documentary, and Emotion
2. Feeling Slavery: Roots and Pedagogies of Emotion
3. Choosing Freedom: Empathy and Agency
4. “How Many Slaves Work for You?” Algorithmic Governance and Guilt
Conclusion. Refusing Prescription: Kara Walker and Black Feminist Cultural Production
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

Allison Page is assistant professor of media studies with a joint appointment in the Institute for the Humanities and the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts at Old Dominion University. 

Product details

• Authors: Allison Page
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781517910402
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1040-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science