Adjusting the contrast: British television and constructs of race - Softcover

 
9781526143600: Adjusting the contrast: British television and constructs of race
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ISBN 10: 1526143607 ISBN 13: 9781526143600
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2019

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environments that helped to create them. While efforts have been made to put diverse portrayals on screen, there are still significant problems with the stories being told.

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Sarita Malik is Professor of Media, Culture and Communications at Brunel University London Darrell M. Newton is Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

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‘Adjusting the contrast makes a meaningful intervention into the whiteness that historically characterises much of UK television studies […] with this rigorous, engaging and eclectic collection, Malik, Newton and their contributors play an important part in the ongoing project to decolonise British television studies.’
Hannah Hamad, Critical Studies in Television

This cutting-edge volume explores texts and practices relating to race and its depiction in this new age of digital services, streaming and on-demand downloads. The contributors address a range of themes, from the management of race in television policy to the construction of Britishness in global programming. Contemporary programmes examined in detail include Doctor Who, Luther, Top Boy,Shoot the Messenger, and Desi DNA. Individual chapters investigate how the 1950s are reframed through Call the Midwife and how historic comedies such as Till Death Us Do Part and Mind Your Language present racial tensions as laughing matters. While efforts have been made to increase diversity on screen, there remain significant problems with the stories being told.

Featuring contributions from Kehinde Andrews, Gavin Schaffer, Anamik Saha, Susana Loza and other noted scholars of media and race, Adjusting the contrast deconstructs cultures of production, showing how public service broadcasting continues to produce programmes rife with racialised tropes.

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Adjusting the contrast makes a meaningful intervention into the whiteness that historically characterises much of UK television studies [ ] with this rigorous, engaging and eclectic collection, Malik, Newton and their contributors play an important part in the ongoing project to decolonise British television studies. Hannah Hamad, Critical Studies in TelevisionThis cutting-edge volume explores texts and practices relating to race and its depiction in this new age of digital services, streaming and on-demand downloads. The contributors address a range of themes, from the management of race in television policy to the construction of Britishness in global programming. Contemporary programmes examined in detail include Doctor Who, Luther, Top Boy,Shoot the Messenger, and Desi DNA. Individual chapters investigate how the 1950s are reframed through Call the Midwife and how historic comedies such as Till Death Us Do Part and Mind Your Language present racial tensions as laughing matters. While efforts have been made to increase diversity on screen, there remain significant problems with the stories being told.Featuring contributions from Kehinde Andrews, Gavin Schaffer, Anamik Saha, Susana Loza and other noted scholars of media and race, Adjusting the contrast deconstructs cultures of production, showing how public service broadcasting continues to produce programmes rife with racialised tropes.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526143607
ISBN 13 
9781526143600
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
228
Herausgeber
Malik Sarita, Newton Darrell M.
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