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- 1 online resource.
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- "For over a decade Tyler Perry has been a lightning rod for both criticism and praise. To some he is most widely known for his drag performances as Madea, a self-proclaimed "mad black woman," not afraid to brandish a gun or a scalding pot of grits. But to others who watch the film industry, he is the businessman who by age thirty-six had sold more than $100 million in tickets, $30 million in videos, $20 million in merchandise, and was producing 300 projects each year viewed by 35,000 every week. Is the commercially successful African American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, and producer "malt liquor for the masses," an "embarrassment to the race," or is he a genius who has directed the most culturally significant American melodramas since Douglas Sirk? Are his films and television shows even melodramas, or are they conservative Christian diatribes, cheeky camp, or social satires? Do Perry's flattened narratives and character tropes irresponsibly collapse important social discourses into one-dimensional tales that affirm the notion of a "post-racial" society? This volume makes the argument that Tyler Perry must be understood as a figure at the nexus of converging factors, cultural events, and historical traditions. The essays challenge value-judgment criticism and offer new insights on the industrial and formal qualities of Perry's work"--
- Uniform Title
- From Madea to media mogul (Online)
- Subject
- Perry, Tyler > Criticism and interpretation
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- 2015049985
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- ssj0001703274
- Title
From Madea to media mogul [electronic resource] : theorizing Tyler Perry / edited by TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Samantha N. Sheppard, and Karen M. Bowdre.
- Imprint
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]
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Russworm, TreaAndrea M.
Sheppard, Samantha N.
Bowdre, Karen M.
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Print version: From Madea to media mogul Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016] 9781496807045 (DLC) 2015048409