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Watching While Black Rebooted! : The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences / edited by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade ; foreword by Herman S. Gray.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Gray, Herman S. (writer of foreword.), Smith-Shomade, Beretta E., 1965- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2024.
Subjects:
African Americans on television.
African American television viewers.
Television broadcasting > Social aspects > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Herman S. Gray
  • Introduction: I Still See Black People . . . Everywhere / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
  • Part I. Historicizing Black
  • 1. Audiences and the Televisual Slavery-Narrative / Eric Pierson
  • 2. History, Trauma, and Healing in Ava DuVernay's 13th and When They See Us / Christine Acham
  • 3. Thinking about Watchmen with Jonathan W. Gray, Rebecca A. Wanzo, and Kristen Warner / Michael Boyce Gillespie
  • 4. From Sitcom Girl to Drama Queen: Soul Food's Showrunner Examines Her Role in Creating TV's First Successful Black-Themed Drama / Felicia D. Henderson
  • Part II. Attending Black
  • 5. Gaming as Trayvon: #BlackLivesMatter Machinima and the Queer Metagames of Black Death / TreaAndrea M. Russworm
  • 6. "Trying to Find Relief": Seeing Black Women through the Lens of Mental Health and Wellness in Being Mary Jane and Insecure / Nghana Lewis
  • 7. On Air Black: The Breakfast Club, Visual Radio, and Spreadable Media / Adrien Sebro
  • Part III. Monetizing Black
  • 8. Black Women, Audiences, and the Queer Possibilities of the Black-Cast Melodrama / Alfred L. Martin Jr.
  • 9. In a '90s Kind of World, I'm Glad I Got My Shows!: Digital Streaming and Black Nostalgia / Briana Barner
  • 10. Tyler Perry's Too Close to Home: Black Audiences in the Post-Network Era / Shelleen Greene
  • Part IV. Feeling Black
  • 11. "I'm Trying to Make People Feel Black": Affective Authenticity in Atlanta / Brandy Monk-­Payton
  • 12. I'm Digging You: Television's Turn to Dirty South Blackness / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
  • 13. I Feel Conflicted as F*ck: Netflix's Dear White People and Re-presenting Black Viewing Communities / Jacqueline Johnson
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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