Watching While Black Rebooted! : : The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences /

Watching While Black Rebooted! : : The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences / / ed. by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade.

Watching While Black Rebooted: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences examines what watching while Black means in an expanded U.S. televisual landscape. In this updated edition, media scholars return to television and digital spaces to think anew about what engages and captures Black audie...

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MitwirkendeR:
Acham, Christine,
Barner, Briana,
Gillespie, Michael Boyce,
Gray, Herman S.,
Greene, Shelleen,
Henderson, Felicia D,
Johnson, Jacqueline,
Lewis, Nghana,
Martin, Alfred L,
Monk-Payton, Brandy,
Pierson, Eric,
Russworm, TreaAndrea M.,
Sebro, Adrien,
Smith-Shomade, Beretta E.,
HerausgeberIn:
Smith-Shomade, Beretta E.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]
2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.) :; 28 B-W images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: I Still See Black People . . . Everywhere
  • Part I Historicizing Black
  • 1 Audiences and the Televisual Slavery-Narrative
  • 2 History, Trauma, and Healing in Ava DuVernay's 13th and When They See Us
  • 3 Thinking about Watchmen with Jonathan W. Gray, Rebecca A. Wanzo, and Kristen Warner
  • 4 From Sitcom Girl to Drama Queen: Soul Food's Showrunner Examines Her Role in Creating TV's First Successful Black-Themed Drama
  • Part II Attending Black
  • 5 Gaming as Trayvon #BlackLivesMatter Machinima and the Queer Metagames of Black Death
  • 6 "Trying to Find Relief" Seeing Black Women through the Lens of Mental Health and Wellness in Being Mary Jane and Insecure
  • 7 On Air Black: The Breakfast Club, Visual Radio, and Spreadable Media
  • Part III Monetizing Black
  • 8 Black Women, Audiences, and the Queer Possibilities of the Black-Cast Melodrama
  • 9 In a '90s Kind of World, I'm Glad I Got My Shows! Digital Streaming and Black Nostalgia
  • 10 Tyler Perry's Too Close to Home: Black Audiences in the Post-Network Era
  • Part IV Feeling Black
  • 11 "I'm Trying to Make People Feel Black" Affective Authenticity in Atlanta
  • 12 I'm Digging You Television's Turn to Dirty South Blackness
  • 13 I Feel Conflicted as F*ck: Netflix's Dear White People and Re-presenting Black Viewing Communities
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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