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Maid for television : race, class, gender and a representational economy
- Title
- Maid for television : race, class, gender and a representational economy / L.S. Kim.
- Author
- Kim, L. S.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
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- Description
- vii, 211 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm
- Summary
- "Maid for Television examines the intersection of race, class, and gender relations as embodied in a long history of television servants from 1950 to the turn of the millennium. Although they reside at the visual peripheries, these figures are integral to the idealized American family. Author L.S. Kim redirects viewers' gaze towards the usually overlooked interface between characters, which is drawn through race, class, and gender identities. The book philosophically redirects the gaze of television and its projection of racial discourse. Maid for Television tells the stories of servants and the families they work for, in so doing it investigates how Americans have dealt with difference through television as a medium and a mediator"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Figure of the Racialized Domestic in American Television -- Domesticating Blackness: African Americans in Service in Comedy and Drama -- Shades of Whiteness: White Servants Keeping Up a Class Ideal -- Unresolvable Roles: Asian American Servants as Perpetual Foreigners -- Invisible but Viewable: The Latina Maid in the Age of Nannygate.
- Call Number
- MWGS 24-44
- ISBN
- 9781978826991
- 1978826990
- 9781978827004
- 1978827008
- 9781978827011 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781978827035 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022050700
- OCLC
- 1350186694
- Author
- Kim, L. S., author.
- Title
- Maid for television : race, class, gender and a representational economy / L.S. Kim.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MWGS 24-44