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OverviewThis is a wide-ranging account of the complex relations between Black communities and popular media, analysing the ways in which Black communities have been portrayed in film and television and considering the contribution made by Black media professionals. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Karen Ross (University of Leicester)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.345kg ISBN: 9780745611273ISBN 10: 0745611273 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 14 December 1995 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAuthor's Note. Part I: Film:. 1. Down and Out in Beverley Hills: Black Portraits and the White Imagination. 2. Black Fights Back Part I: Black Filmmakers and Strategies of Opposition in Britain. 3. Black Fights Back Part II: Black Filmmaking and Strategies of Opposition in America. Part II: Television: . 4. Small but Imperfectly Formed: Small Screen Portraits of Otherness. 5. Minority Interests: British Television and the Multicultural Agenda. Part III: Film and Television:. 6. Reading Black Media. 7. Twenty-First Century Blues. Bibliography. General Index. Index of Films. Index of TV Programmes.ReviewsA strong first chapter, drawing on analyses of cultural hybridity by Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy, paves the way for a delicately nuanced tight--rope walk through the history of assimilation, resistance, a blacknessa , a ethnic nationalisma , bringing us to todaya s a new transgressive modes of beinga ... An important and enjoyable book. New Times Karen Ross has written a most valuable and acutely observed book which should be required reading in all media institutions. Louis Danner--Mahoney, Vice--President, Equity, and Chair, Afro--Asian Committee "A strong first chapter, drawing on analyses of cultural hybridity by Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy, paves the way for a delicately nuanced tight-rope walk through the history of assimilation, resistance, 'blackness', 'ethnic nationalism', bringing us to today's 'new transgressive modes of being' ... An important and enjoyable book." New Times "Karen Ross has written a most valuable and acutely observed book which should be required reading in all media institutions." Louis Danner-Mahoney, Vice-President, Equity, and Chair, Afro-Asian Committee Author InformationKaren Ross is a Research Officer at the Centre for Mass Communication Research at the University of Leicester. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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