[ecrea] new book: Technicolored: Reflections on Race in the Time of TV - Ann duCille

We would like to announce a new publication from Duke University Press, 
which we hope will be of interest.

*Technicolored***

  Reflections on Race in the Time of TV

*Ann duCille***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/technicolored_**__*


 From early sitcoms such as /I Love Lucy/ to contemporary prime-time 
dramas like /Scandal/ and /How to Get Away with Murder/, African 
Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired 
stereotypes of blacks as villains, vixens, victims, and disposable 
minorities. In /Technicolored/ black feminist critic Ann duCille 
combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with 
the new medium of TV to examine how televisual representations of 
African Americans have changed over the last sixty years. Whether 
explaining how watching Shirley Temple led her to question her own 
self-worth or how televisual representation functions as a form of 
racial profiling, duCille traces the real-life social and political 
repercussions of the portrayal and presence of African Americans on 
television. Neither a conventional memoir nor a traditional media study, 
/Technicolored/ offers one lifelong television watcher's careful, 
personal, and timely analysis of how television continues to shape 
notions of race in the American imagination.

*Ann duCille*is Emerita Professor of English at Wesleyan University and 
author of /Skin Trade/ and /The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and 
Tradition in Black Women's Fiction.///



*Duke University Press**| a Camera Obscura book | September 2018 | 352pp 
| 9781478000488 | Paperback | £20.99**

*Price subject to change.

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