{"product_id":"media-and-the-affective-life-of-slavery-9781517910402","title":"Media and the Affective Life of Slavery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow media shapes our actions and feelings about race\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmid fervent conversations about antiracism and police violence, \u003ci\u003eMedia and the Affective Life of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e delivers vital new ideas about how our feelings about race are governed and normalized by our media landscape. Allison Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today, analyzing how media culture instructs viewers to act and feel in accordance with new racial norms created for an era supposedly defined by an end to legal racism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the classic television miniseries \u003ci\u003eRoots\u003c\/i\u003e to the edutainment video game \u003ci\u003eMission 2: Flight to Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e and the popular website slaveryfootprint.org, \u003ci\u003eMedia and the Affective Life of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e provides an in-depth look at the capitalist and cultural artifacts that teach the U.S. public about slavery. Page theorizes media not only as a system of representation but also as a technology of citizenship and subjectivity, wherein race is seen as a problem to be solved. Ultimately, she argues that visual culture works through emotion, a powerful lever for shaping and managing racialized subjectivity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMedia and the Affective Life of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e delivers compelling, provocative material and includes a wealth of archival research into such realms as news, entertainment, television, curricula, video games, and digital apps, providing new and innovative scholarship where none currently exists. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Allison Page’s \u003ci\u003eMedia and the Affective Life of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully analyzes how television, film, and new media use slavery to socialize viewers into racialized understandings of American citizenship. Through film, television, apps, and video games, she shows how media representations of slavery underwrote forms of liberal and neoliberal subjectivity. This is one of the most brilliant takes on the intersections between media, affect, citizenship, and race; we would do well to study its insights.\" —Roderick A. Ferguson, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Allison Page’s \u003ci\u003eMedia and the Affective Life of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling and much needed archival media history of how the national story America tells itself about itself is renewed.\"—\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"The core of \u003ci\u003eMedia and the Affective Life of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e is painful and profound but essential to an understanding of the multidisciplinary legacy and impact of slavery in the culture of the United States.\"—\u003ci\u003eInformation and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eMedia and the Affective Life of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting book that breaks new ground even as it participates in some of the most enduring conversations in the field.\"—\u003ci\u003eTelevision and New Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Racial Formation and Post–Civil Rights Governance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. “The Restless Black Peril”: Race, Television Documentary, and Emotion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Feeling Slavery: \u003ci\u003eRoots\u003c\/i\u003e and Pedagogies of Emotion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Choosing Freedom: Empathy and Agency\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. “How Many Slaves Work for You?” Algorithmic Governance and Guilt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion. Refusing Prescription: Kara Walker and Black Feminist Cultural Production\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409715765591,"sku":"9781517910402","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517910402.jpg?v=1730507777","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/media-and-the-affective-life-of-slavery-9781517910402","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}