{"product_id":"technicolored-9781478000396","title":"Technicolored","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrom early sitcoms such as \u003ci\u003eI Love Lucy\u003c\/i\u003e to contemporary prime-time dramas like \u003ci\u003eScandal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow to Get Away with Murder\u003c\/i\u003e, African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as villains, vixens, victims, and disposable minorities. In \u003ci\u003eTechnicolored\u003c\/i\u003e black feminist critic Ann duCille combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with the new medium of TV to examine how televisual representations of African Americans have changed over the last sixty years. Whether explaining how watching Shirley Temple led her to question her own self-worth or how televisual representation functions as a form of racial profiling, duCille traces the real-life social and political repercussions of the portrayal and presence of African Americans on television. Neither a conventional memoir nor a traditional media study, \u003ci\u003eTechnicolored\u003c\/i\u003e offers one lifelong television watcher''s careful, personal, and timely ana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ann duCille offers an eloquent analysis of the relationship between representations of people of color and their absence in television from the 1950s to the present. She skillfully blends her comprehensive, historically grounded research with personal memories and her present connection to television. . . .  Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.\" -- K. Sorensen * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"In her book \u003ci\u003eTechnicolored\u003c\/i\u003e, Ann duCille deftly blends memoir and television criticism to create an important critical intervention into the study of race and media.\" -- Jacqueline Johnson * Film Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTechnicolored \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautifully written and deeply engaging text that makes media criticism available in multiple registers. Media critics, Black Studies scholars, those interested in literary experiments that bridge memoir and theory, and all students of culture will learn considerably from duCille’s achievement.\" -- Michael Litwack * The Black Scholar *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. What's in a Game? Quiz Shows and the \"Prism of Race\"  22\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear\": Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise of Technicolored TV  52\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two  83\u003cbr\u003e 4. Interracial \u003ci\u003eLoving\u003c\/i\u003e: Sexless in the Suburbs of the 1960s  112\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"A Credit to My Race\": Acting Black and Black Acting from \u003ci\u003eJulia\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eScandal\u003c\/i\u003e  134\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Clear and Present Absence: \u003ci\u003ePerry Mason\u003c\/i\u003e and the Case of the Missing \"Minorities\"  159\u003cbr\u003e 7. \"Soaploitation\": Getting Away with Murder in Primetime  183\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Punch and \u003ci\u003eJudge Judy\u003c\/i\u003e Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day in Court  209\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Palatability  232\u003cbr\u003e 10. The \"Thug Default\": Why Racial Representation Still Matters  261\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Final Spin: \"That's Not My Food\"  285\u003cbr\u003e Notes  289\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  311\u003cbr\u003e Index  325\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408968032599,"sku":"9781478000396","price":112.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478000396.jpg?v=1730504900","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/technicolored-9781478000396","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}