Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: L. S. Kim
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.050kg
ISBN: 9781978826991
ISBN 10: 1978826990
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 11 August 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
""Maid for Television is a rigorously intersectional and interdisciplinary study that places the racialized domestic servant at the center of U.S. television history. This figure is ubiquitously invisible, yet also absolutely essential to maintaining the white middle-class family as the nation’s social, economic, and political norm.""— Chon A. Noriega, author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema
Maid for Television is a rigorously intersectional and interdisciplinary study that places the racialized domestic servant at the center of U.S. television history. This figure is ubiquitously invisible, yet also absolutely essential to maintaining the white middle-class family as the nation's social, economic, and political norm. --Chon A. Noriega author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema
Author Information
L. S. KIM is an associate professor in the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written about race, class, gender, and genre for The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media, The Sage Handbook of Television Studies, Flow TV, Journal of Film and Video, Anti-Feminisms in Media Culture, and Ms. Magazine. She serves on the Ms. Committee of Scholars, and has served on the American Film Institute Awards jury.
