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Book cover image of Black, White, and in Color: Television and Black Civil Rights by Sasha Torres

Authors: Sasha Torres
ISBN-13: 9780691016573, ISBN-10: 0691016577
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Sasha Torres

Book Synopsis

"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

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction1
The Vicissitudes of the Stereotype1
Issues and Some Answers4
Television and Conservative Racial Projects after the '60s8
Ch. 1"In a crisis we must have a sense of drama": Civil Rights and Televisual Information13
The Burden of Liveness13
"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. 2The Double Life of "Sit-In"36
"Sit-In"'s Industrial Context36
"Sit-In" Flashes Back39
"Sit-In" as a Movement Text41
"Sit-In" and Black Idiom44
Ch. 3King TV48
Rodney King Live48
Liveness: An Ideology of Television and Race49
L. A. Law and Televisual Justice52
Doogie Howser, M.D., and Televisual Instruction60
Rodney King Dead68
Ch. 4Giuliani Time: Urban Policing and Brooklyn South70
Cops and Cop Shows70
Giuliani Time71
How to Identify with the Cops77
Good Cop, Bad Cop83

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African Americans African American Arts & Entertainment Performing Arts
African Americans African American History Civil Rights - African American History
African Americans African American - General & Miscellaneous Mass Media
Entertainment Media Ethnic & Minority Studies - Media Studies
Entertainment Media Journalism
Entertainment Television Television Broadcasting - Social Aspects
Entertainment Television Television News Programs
History African American History African American Arts & Entertainment
History African American History African American History
History African American History General & Miscellaneous
History American History United States History - 20th Century - 1945 to 2000
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Social Sciences Ethnic & Minority Studies Ethnic & Minority Studies - Media Studies
Social Sciences Media & Communications Ethnic & Minority Studies - Media Studies
Social Sciences Media & Communications Journalism
Nonfiction Entertainment Media
Nonfiction Entertainment Television
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