ISBN:
9781478002239
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 236 Seiten)
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DDC:
305.896073
Keywords:
African Americans in mass media
;
African Americans in popular culture
;
African Americans and mass media
;
Race in mass media
;
African Americans-Race identity
;
African Americans in mass media
;
African Americans in popular culture
;
African Americans and mass media
;
Race in mass media
;
African Americans ; Race identity
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Racquel J. Gates examines the potential of so-called negative representations of African Americans in film and TV, from Coming to America to Basketball Wives and Empire, showing how such representations can strategically pose questions about blackness, black culture, and American society in ways that more respectable ones cannot
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Negativity and the Black Popular Image -- 1. Eddie Murphy, Coming to America, and Formal Negativity -- 2. Relational Negativity: The Sellout Films of the 1990s -- 3. The Circumstantial Negativity of Halle Berry -- 4. Embracing the Ratchet: Reality Television and Strategic Negativity -- Conclusion: Empire A False Negative? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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