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UNINA9910557803403321 |
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DuCille Ann |
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Technicolored : reflections on race in the time of TV / / Ann duCille |
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Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2018 |
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1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) : illustrations |
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African Americans on television |
Race on television |
Racism on television |
Television programs - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Black and white and technicolored : channeling the TV life -- What's in a game? : Quiz shows and the "prism of race" -- "Those thrilling days of yesteryear" : stigmatic blackness and the rise of technicolored TV -- The Shirley Temple of my familiar : take two -- Interracial Loving : sexlessness in the suburbs of the 1960s -- "A credit to my race" : acting Black and Black acting from Julia to Scandal -- A clear and present absence : Perry Mason and the case of the missing "minorities" -- "Soaploitation" : getting away with murder in primetime -- The Punch and Judge Judy shows : really real TV and the dangers of a day in court -- The autumn of his discontent : Bill Cosby, fatherhood, and the politics of palatability -- The "thug default" : why racial representation still matters -- Epilogue: Final spin : "That's not my food." |
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From early sitcoms such as I Love Lucy to contemporary prime-time dramas like Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as villains, vixens, victims, and disposable minorities. In Technicolored 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 |
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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, Technicolored offers one lifelong television watcher's careful, personal, and timely analysis of how television continues to shape notions of race in the American imagination. |
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UNISA996208461103316 |
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Claudian. Volume I |
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[Place of publication not identified], : Harvard University Press, 1922 |
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1 online resource (432 pages) |
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Loeb classical library ; ; 135 |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Annotation Claudius Claudianus, Latin poet of great affairs, flourished during the joint reigns (3945 CE onwards) of the brothers Honorius (Emperor in the West) and Arcadius (in the East). Apparently a native of Greek Alexandria in Egypt, he was, to judge by his name, of Roman descent, though his first writings were in Greek, and his pure Latin may have been learned by him as a foreign language. About 395 CE he moved to Italy (Milan and Rome) and though really a pagan, became a professional court-poet composing for Christian rulers works which give us important knowledge of Honorius's time. A panegyric on the brothers Probinus and Olybrius (consuls together in 395) was followed during ten years by other poems (mostly epics in hexameters): in praise of consulships of Honorius (395, 398, 404 CE); against the Byzantine ministers Rufinus (396) and Eutropius (399); in praise of the consulship |
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(400) of Stilicho (Honorius's guardian, general, and minister); in praise of Stilicho's wife Serena; mixed metres on the marriage of Honorius to their daughter Maria; on the war with the rebel Gildo in Africa (398); on the Getic or Gothic war (402); on Stilicho's success against the Goth Alaric (403); on the consulship of Manlius Theodorus (399); and on the wedding of Palladius and Celerina. Less important are non-official poems such as the three books of a mythological epic on the Rape of Proserpina, unfinished as was also a Battle of Giants (in Greek). Noteworthy are Phoenix, Senex Veronensis, elegiac prefaces, and the epistles, epigrams, and idylls. Through the patronage of Stilicho or through Serena, Claudius in 404 married well in Africa and was granted a statue in Rome. Nothing is known of him after 404. In his poetry are true poetic as well as rhetorical skill, command of language, polished style, diversity, vigour, satire, dignity, bombast, artificiality, flattery, and other virtues and faults of the earlier 'silver' age in Latin. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Claudian is in two volumes. |
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