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Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity (Culture America) (Culture America (Hardcover))
Alan Nadel
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Description for Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity (Culture America) (Culture America (Hardcover))
Hardcover. Reminding us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences, this book revisits a time and space that some might miss for its simplicity and innocence. The author entreats us to look beyond such nostalgia, to see how, even in its earliest days, television had become a powerful mediator. Series: CultureAmerica. Num Pages: 216 pages, 26 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFD; JFSL1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 513.
Alan Nadel's provocative new book reminds us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences. Television did not invent whiteness for America, but it did reinforce it as the norm - particularly during the Cold War years. Nadel now shows just how instrumental it was in constructing a narrow, conservative, and very white vision of America. Nadel depicts a time when television effectively hijacked and monopolized the nation's vision of itself to create a virtual but severely distorted civic space. On Cold War TV's three channels there were no double beds, ... Read more
Alan Nadel's provocative new book reminds us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences. Television did not invent whiteness for America, but it did reinforce it as the norm - particularly during the Cold War years. Nadel now shows just how instrumental it was in constructing a narrow, conservative, and very white vision of America. Nadel depicts a time when television effectively hijacked and monopolized the nation's vision of itself to create a virtual but severely distorted civic space. On Cold War TV's three channels there were no double beds, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
CultureAmerica
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700613984
SKU
V9780700613984
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About Alan Nadel
Alan Nadel is professor of literature and film at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author of Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon; Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age; and Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America.
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