{"product_id":"black-television-travels-9780814737200","title":"Black Television Travels","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful  view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of  blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the  circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized  discourses—including industry lore, taste cultures, and the multiple  stories of black experiences that have and have not made it onto the  small screen—Havens complicates discussions of racial representation and  exposes possibilities for more expansive representations of blackness  while recognizing the limitations of the seemingly liberatory spaces  created by globalization.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Bambi Haggins, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A  major achievement that makes important contributions to the analysis of  race, identity, global media, nation, and television production  cultures. Discussions of race and television are too often constricted  within national boundaries, yet this fantastic book offers a strong,  compelling, and utterly refreshing corrective. Read it, assign it, use  it.” \u003cbr\u003e—Jonathan Gray, author of Television Entertainment, Television Studies, and Show Sold Separately \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack Television Travels  explores the globalization of African American television and the way  in which foreign markets, programming strategies, and viewer preferences  have influenced portrayals of African Americans on the small screen.  Television executives have been notoriously slow to recognize the  potential popularity of black characters and themes, both at home and  abroad.  As American television brokers increasingly seek revenues  abroad, their assumptions about saleability and audience perceptions  directly influence the global circulation of these programs, as well as  their content. Black Television Travels aims to reclaim the  history of African American television circulation in an effort to  correct and counteract this predominant industry lore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased  on interviews with television executives and programmers from around  the world, as well as producers in the United States, Havens traces the  shift from an era when national television networks often blocked  African American television from traveling abroad to the transnational,  post-network era of today. While globalization has helped to expand  diversity in African American television, particularly in regard to  genre, it has also resulted in restrictions, such as in the limited  portrayal of African American women in favor of attracting young male  demographics across racial and national boundaries. Havens underscores  the importance of examining boardroom politics as part of racial  discourse in the late modern era, when transnational cultural industries  like television are the primary sources for dominant representations of  blackness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Timothy Havens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48272867393787,"sku":"9780814737200","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780814737200.jpg?v=1772482907","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/black-television-travels-9780814737200","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}