| Gender and Race in Postwar Variety Television: Colorful Performance Contributor(s): Murugan, Meenasarani Linde (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138206504 ISBN-13: 9781138206502 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2025 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of June 30, 2025 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Performing Arts | Television - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Series: Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media |
| Physical Information: 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book expands our understanding of postwar television and US culture by focusing on variety programs. It looks at how variety television articulated a cosmopolitanism that served to expand televisual constructions of gender and race in the postwar period, demonstrating how the entertaining of racial and ethnic identities by white variety show hosts was achieved through the featuring of people of color, musical performances, and representations of travel--simulated and actual. The emphasis on variety show performances reveals the transnational cultural flows at work in song choice, staging, and costume design. Through an analysis of industrial and press discourse as well as television programs this project situates the history US television in a global and transnational context. |