Research Catalog

Title

Adjusting the contrast : British television and constructs of race / edited by Sarita Malik and Darrell M. Newton.

Publication

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Newton, Darrell M.
• Malik, Sarita

Description

xii, 212 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Through contextual and textual analyses, this title explores a range of texts and practices that address the ongoing phenomenon of race and its relationship to television. Chapters explore policies and the management of race; transnationalism and racial diversity; historical questions of representation; the myth of a multicultural England, and more. Included are textual analyses of programmes such as Doctor Who, Shoot the Messenger, Desi DNA, Top Boy, and the broadcast environments that helped to create them. Other chapters scrutinise the 1950s and how immigration is reframed on contemporary television screens on programmes like Call the Midwife; the continuing myth of a multicultural England through Luther, and how comedies such as Till Death Us Do Part, cautiously framed racial tensions as laughing matters.

Subjects

• Great Britain
• Television broadcasting > Social aspects
• Race on television
• Great Britain > Race relations > On television
• Television broadcasting > Social aspects > Great Britain
• Television programs > Great Britain
• Minorities on television
• Blacks on television

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-206) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Sarita Malik and Darrell M. Newton -- A little Brit different? : BBC America and transnational constructs of Britishness / Darrell M. Newton -- Scheduling race / Anamik Saha -- Reframing the 1950s : race and representation in recent British television / James Burton -- Black British drama, losses and gains : the case of Shoot the Messenger / Sarita Malik -- The iconic ghetto on British television : Black representation and Top Boy / Kehinde Andrews -- Whiteness, normativity and the ongoing racial Other : imperial fictions : Doctor Who, post-racial slavery and other liberal humanist fantasies / Susana Loza -- Myth of a multicultural England in BBC's Luther / Nicole M. Jackson -- Framing The Fosters : jokes, racism and Black and Asian voices in British comedy television / Gavin Schaffer.

Call Number

Sc E 18-641

ISBN

• 9781526100986
• 1526100983

LCCN

2017296266

OCLC

973921081

Title

Adjusting the contrast : British television and constructs of race / edited by Sarita Malik and Darrell M. Newton.

Publisher

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-206) and index.

Added Author

Newton, Darrell M., editor.

Malik, Sarita, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-641