Description
Lucid and accessible in both argument and style, this book offers perhaps the most theoretically sophisticated treatment to date of the historical relationship between the civil rights movement and network television, as well as of the complexities of representations of race in contemporary television. It embraces a wide academic audience, opening a conversation across disciplines that too often fail to take each other's accomplishments into account. -- Sharon Willis, University of Rochester This book is distinguished by a rare combination of critical acumen and historical insight. Torres is characteristically incisive, presenting an argument that appears both incontrovertibly correct and wholly original. -- Phillip Brian Harper, New York University
About the Author
Sasha Torres is Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario and the editor of "Living Color: Race and Television in the United States".
Reviews
"Lucid and accessible in both argument and style, this book offers perhaps the most theoretically sophisticated treatment to date of the historical relationship between the civil rights movement and network television, as well as of the complexities of representations of race in contemporary television. It embraces a wide academic audience, opening a conversation across disciplines that too often fail to take each other's accomplishments into account."-Sharon Willis, University of Rochester
"This book is distinguished by a rare combination of critical acumen and historical insight. Torres is characteristically incisive, presenting an argument that appears both incontrovertibly correct and wholly original."-Phillip Brian Harper, New York University
Book Information
ISBN 9780691016573
Author Sasha Torres
Format Paperback
Page Count 168
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 227g