{"product_id":"watching-while-black-centering-the-television-of-black-audiences-hardback-9780813553870","title":"Watching While Black; Centering the Television of Black Audiences (Hardback) 9780813553870","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWatching While Black\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCentering the Television of Black Audiences\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBeretta E. Smith-Shomade (Edited by), Robin Means Coleman (Contributions by), Andre Cavalcante (Contributions by), Kristen J. Warner (Contributions by), Christine Acham (Contributions by), Devorah Heitner (Contributions by), TreaAndrea M. Russworm (Contributions by), Jennifer Fuller (Contributions by), Kim M. LeDuff (Contributions by), Racquel Gates (Contributions by), Nghana Lewis (Contributions by), Mark D. Cunningham (Contributions by), Deborah Elizabeth Whaley (Contributions by), Reighan Gillam (Contributions by), Nsenga Burton (Contributions by), Timothy Havens (Contributions by), Eric Pierson (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813553870\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 January 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages, 33 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"An important contribution to the scholarship on black television representations, \u003ci\u003eWatching While Black\u003c\/i\u003e fills a gap in the literature by placing recent shows aimed at black audiences front and center.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Darnell M. Hunt (editor of Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Reading this collection is like channel surfing and landing on the black spaces. This is what television scholarship looks like and the televisual experience feels like when the fullness of black life is made central to television.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Herman Gray (University of California, Santa Cruz) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Beretta E. Smith-Shomade has assembled a timely, necessary contribution to and intervention within the literature on television and blackness.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Cinema Journal) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This well-written volume should appeal not only to historians of African American experience, but also Black Studies scholars and those in contemporary Media Studies.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of African America History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e2013 \u003ci\u003eChoice \u003c\/i\u003eOutstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Television scholarship has substantially ignored programming aimed at Black audiences despite a few sweeping histories and critiques. In this volume, the first of its kind, contributors examine the televisual diversity, complexity, and cultural imperatives manifest in programming directed at a Black and marginalized audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWatching While Black\u003c\/i\u003e considers its subject from an entirely new angle in an attempt to understand the lives, motivations, distinctions, kindred lines, and individuality of various Black groups and suggest what television might be like if such diversity permeated beyond specialized enclaves. It looks at the macro structures of ownership, producing, casting, and advertising that all inform production, and then delves into television programming crafted to appeal to black audiences-historic and contemporary, domestic and worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapters rethink such historically significant programs as \u003ci\u003eRoots\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, such seemingly innocuous programs as \u003ci\u003eFat Albert\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ebro’Town\u003c\/i\u003e, and such contemporary and culturally complicated programs as \u003ci\u003eNoah’s Arc\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTreme\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Boondocks\u003c\/i\u003e. The book makes a case for the centrality of these programs while always recognizing the racial dynamics that continue to shape Black representation on the small screen.  Painting a decidedly introspective portrait across forty years of Black television, \u003ci\u003eWatching While Black\u003c\/i\u003e sheds much-needed light on under-examined demographics, broadens common audience considerations, and gives deference to the the preferences of audiences and producers of Black-targeted programming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e           \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734771855640,"sku":"9780813553870","price":89.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/watching-while-black-centering-the-television-of-black-audiences-hardback-9780813553870","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}