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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465953203321

Autore

Newton Darrell M.

Titolo

Paving the Empire Road : BBC television and black Britons / / by Darrell M. Newton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-5261-4361-5

1-78170-284-5

1-84779-460-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

302.23450941

791.45089960729

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Radio, race, and the Television Service; 2. Television programming and social impact; 3. Voices of contention and BBC programming; 4. A Black eye; 5. Contemporary voices from within; Appendix; Selected bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Beginning in the 1930's and moving into the post millennium, Newton provides a historical analysis of policies invoked, and practices undertaken as the Service attempted to assist white Britons in understanding the impact of African-Caribbeans, and their assimilation into constructs of Britishness. Management soon approved talks and scientific studies as a means of examining racial tensions, as ITV challenged the discourses of British broadcasting. Soon, BBC2 began broadcasting; and more issues of race appeared on the screens, each reflecting sometimes comedic, somewhat dystopic, often problema