LEADER 05522nam 22006375 450 001 996582048403316 005 20200608045044.0 010 $a0-8147-5944-0 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814759448 035 $a(CKB)2670000000339967 035 $a(EBL)1137508 035 $a(OCoLC)830164538 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000832765 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11465021 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000832765 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10900128 035 $a(PQKB)10882151 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326273 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1137508 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26701 035 $a(DE-B1597)548054 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814759448 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000339967 100 $a20200608h20132013 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlack Television Travels $eAfrican American Media around the Globe /$fTimothy Havens 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cNew York University Press, $d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (228 p.) 225 0 $aCritical Cultural Communication ;$v16 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-3721-8 311 $a0-8147-3720-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Roots and the Perils of African American Television Drama in a Global World -- $t2. Integrated Eighties Situation Comedies and the Struggle against Apartheid -- $t3. The Cosby Show, Family Themes, and the Ascent of White Situation Comedies Abroad in the Late 1980s -- $t4. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Channel Fragmentation, and the Recognition of Difference -- $t5. The Worldwide Circulation of Contemporary African American Television -- $t6. Black Television from Elsewhere -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $a?Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses?including industry lore, taste cultures, and the multiple stories of black experiences that have and have not made it onto the small screen?Havens complicates discussions of racial representation and exposes possibilities for more expansive representations of blackness while recognizing the limitations of the seemingly liberatory spaces created by globalization.? ?Bambi Haggins, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University ?A major achievement that makes important contributions to the analysis of race, identity, global media, nation, and television production cultures. Discussions of race and television are too often constricted within national boundaries, yet this fantastic book offers a strong, compelling, and utterly refreshing corrective. Read it, assign it, use it.? ?Jonathan Gray, author of Television Entertainment, Television Studies, and Show Sold Separately Black Television Travels explores the globalization of African American television and the way in which foreign markets, programming strategies, and viewer preferences have influenced portrayals of African Americans on the small screen. Television executives have been notoriously slow to recognize the potential popularity of black characters and themes, both at home and abroad. As American television brokers increasingly seek revenues abroad, their assumptions about saleability and audience perceptions directly influence the global circulation of these programs, as well as their content. Black Television Travels aims to reclaim the history of African American television circulation in an effort to correct and counteract this predominant industry lore.Based on interviews with television executives and programmers from around the world, as well as producers in the United States, Havens traces the shift from an era when national television networks often blocked African American television from traveling abroad to the transnational, post-network era of today. While globalization has helped to expand diversity in African American television, particularly in regard to genre, it has also resulted in restrictions, such as in the limited portrayal of African American women in favor of attracting young male demographics across racial and national boundaries. Havens underscores the importance of examining boardroom politics as part of racial discourse in the late modern era, when transnational cultural industries like television are the primary sources for dominant representations of blackness. 410 0$aCritical Cultural Communication 606 $aForeign television programs$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTelevision programs$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans on television 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aForeign television programs$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTelevision programs$xSocial aspects 615 0$aAfrican Americans on television. 676 $a791.4508996073 700 $aHavens$b Timothy, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01616705 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996582048403316 996 $aBlack Television Travels$94128403 997 $aUNISA