Black television travels [electronic resource] : African American media around the globe / Timothy Havens.
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- 9780814759448
- 081473720X
- 791.45/08996073 23
- PN1992.8.A34 H38 2013
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index.
Introduction: African American television trade -- Roots and the perils of African American television drama in a global world -- Integrated eighties situation comedies and the struggle against apartheid -- The Cosby show, family themes, and the ascent of white situation comedies abroad in the late 1980s -- The Fresh prince of Bel-Air, channel fragmentation, and the recognition of difference -- The worldwide circulation of contemporary African American television -- Black television from elsewhere: the globalization of non-U.S. Black television -- Conclusion: transnational televisual aesthetics and global discourses of race.
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