Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement Contributor(s): Bodroghkozy, Aniko (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252036689 ISBN-13: 9780252036682 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Television - History & Criticism - History | United States - 20th Century - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
Dewey: 302.230 |
LCCN: 2011032471 |
Series: History of Communication (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (1.35 lbs) 280 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Topical - Black History |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement explores the crucial role of network television in reconfiguring new attitudes in race relations during the civil rights movement. Due to widespread coverage, the civil rights revolution quickly became the United States' first televised major domestic news story. This important medium unmistakably influenced the ongoing movement for African American empowerment, desegregation, and equality. Aniko Bodroghkozy brings to the foreground network news treatment of now-famous civil rights events including the 1965 Selma voting rights campaign, integration riots at the University of Mississippi, and the March on Washington, including Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. She also examines the most high-profile and controversial television series of the era to feature African American actors--East Side/West Side, Julia, and Good Times--to reveal how entertainment programmers sought to represent a rapidly shifting consensus on what "blackness" and "whiteness" meant and how they now fit together. |