Authors: Sasha Torres
ISBN-13: 9780691016573, ISBN-10: 0691016577
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
"Lucid and accessible in both argument and style, this book offers perhaps the most theoretically sophisticated treatment to date of the historical relationship between the civil rights movement and network television, as well as of the complexities of representations of race in contemporary television. It embraces a wide academic audience, opening a conversation across disciplines that too often fail to take each other's accomplishments into account."--Sharon Willis, University of Rochester
"This book is distinguished by a rare combination of critical acumen and historical insight. Torres is characteristically incisive, presenting an argument that appears both incontrovertibly correct and wholly original."--Phillip Brian Harper, New York University
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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
The Vicissitudes of the Stereotype | 1 | |
Issues and Some Answers | 4 | |
Television and Conservative Racial Projects after the '60s | 8 | |
Ch. 1 | "In a crisis we must have a sense of drama": Civil Rights and Televisual Information | 13 |
The Burden of Liveness | 13 | |
"Pictures are the point of television news" | 15 | |
"We have shut ourselves off from the rest of the world" | 20 | |
"That cycle of violence and publicity" | 23 | |
"The vehemence of a dream" | 33 | |
Ch. 2 | The Double Life of "Sit-In" | 36 |
"Sit-In"'s Industrial Context | 36 | |
"Sit-In" Flashes Back | 39 | |
"Sit-In" as a Movement Text | 41 | |
"Sit-In" and Black Idiom | 44 | |
Ch. 3 | King TV | 48 |
Rodney King Live | 48 | |
Liveness: An Ideology of Television and Race | 49 | |
L. A. Law and Televisual Justice | 52 | |
Doogie Howser, M.D., and Televisual Instruction | 60 | |
Rodney King Dead | 68 | |
Ch. 4 | Giuliani Time: Urban Policing and Brooklyn South | 70 |
Cops and Cop Shows | 70 | |
Giuliani Time | 71 | |
How to Identify with the Cops | 77 | |
Good Cop, Bad Cop | 83 |