Color by Fox : the Fox network and the revolution in Black television / / Kristal Brent Zook

• Autore: Zook Kristal Brent
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.450896073; 791.456520396073
• Soggetto topico: African Americans on television; African Americans in television broadcasting
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1999.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-142) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Color and Caste; 1: Blood Is Thicker than Mud: C-Note Goes to Compton on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air; 2: High Yella Bananas and Hair Weaves: The Sinbad Show; 3: Ralph Farquhar's South Central and Pearl's Place to Play: Why They Failed Before Moesha Hit; Part 2: Gender and Sexuality; 4: Sheneneh, Gender-Fuck, and Romance: Martin's Thin Line Between Love and Hate; 5: Living Single and the ""Fight for Mr. Right"": Latifah Don't Play; Part 3: Social Movement; 6: Under the Sign of Malcolm: Memory, Feminism, and Political Activism ; 7: Boricua Power in the Boogie-Down Bronx: Puerto Rican Nationalism on New York Undercover Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Locating a persistent black nationalist desire - yearning for home and community - in the shows produced in the 1980s and 1990s, Zook shows how the Fox hip-hop sitcom both reinforced and rebelled against earlier black sitcoms from the 1960s and 1970s.
• Titolo autorizzato: Color by Fox
• ISBN: 0-19-772349-7; 1-280-53377-3; 0-19-535565-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910960417903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)