[Commlist] New Book -- Down in Treme: Race, Place, and New Orleans on Television

*Book Announcement:*

*Down in Treme: Race, Place, and New Orleans on Television*
Author: Helen Morgan Parmett
2019 | 216 pages | ISBN 978-3-515-12181-1 (softcover) | ISBN 
978-3-515-12182-8 (e-book)

Termed 'Hollywood South,' New Orleans is the site of a burgeoning 
cultural economy of film and television production. In the wake of 
Hurricane Katrina, this production plays an important role in the city's 
rebuilding. /Down in Treme: Race, Place, and New Orleans on 
Television/ takes the HBO series /Treme/, filmed on-location in New 
Orleans, as a case study for exploring relationships between television 
production and raced and classed geographies in the rebuilding of 
post-Katrina New Orleans. /Treme/ demonstrates how city efforts to 
attract film and television production collide with the television 
industry's desire to create new forms of connection for increasingly 
distracted audiences through the production of "authentic" connections 
to place. /Down in Treme/ explores what is at stake in these collisions 
for local culture and struggles over the right to neighborhood and city 
space. By putting post-broadcast television studies, critical race 
theory, and urban studies into conversation, /Down in Treme/ provides a 
poignant case study that enjoins scholars to go beyond the text to 
consider how media industries and production practices intervene into 
the contemporary media city.

Available from http://www.steiner-verlag.de/titel/61606.html

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