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Black television travels : African American media around the globe

Title
Black television travels : African American media around the globe / Timothy Havens.
Author
Havens, Timothy.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2013]

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Description
xii, 215 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Critical cultural communication
Uniform Title
Critical cultural communication.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-207) and index.
Contents
Introduction: African American television trade -- Roots and the perils of African American television drama in a global world -- Integrated eighties situation comedies and the struggle against apartheid -- The Cosby show, family themes, and the ascent of white situation comedies abroad in the late 1980s -- The Fresh prince of Bel-Air, channel fragmentation, and the recognition of difference -- The worldwide circulation of contemporary African American television -- Black television from elsewhere: the globalization of non-U.S. Black television -- Conclusion: transnational televisual aesthetics and global discourses of race.
Call Number
Sc E 14-436
ISBN
  • 9780814737200 (cl : alk. paper)
  • 081473720X (cl : alk. paper)
  • 9780814737217 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 0814737218 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 9780814760765 (e-book)
  • 0814760767 (e-book)
  • 9780814759448 (e-book)
  • 0814759440 (e-book)
LCCN
2012042160
OCLC
819717762
Author
Havens, Timothy.
Title
Black television travels : African American media around the globe / Timothy Havens.
Publisher
New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Critical cultural communication
Critical cultural communication.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-207) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 14-436
MWGS 13-3859
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