{"product_id":"horrible-white-people-9781479805334","title":"Horrible White People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the same time that right-wing political figures like Donald Trump were elected and reactionary socio-economic policies like Brexit were voted into law, representations of bleakly comic white fragility spread across television screens. American and British programming that featured the abjection of young, middle-class, liberal white people—such as \u003ci\u003eBroad City\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Casual\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e You’re the Worst\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFleabag\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTransparent\u003c\/i\u003e—proliferated to wide popular acclaim in the 2010s. Taylor Nygaard and Jorie Lagerwey track how these shows of the white left, obsessed with its own anxiety and suffering, are complicit in the rise and maintenance of the far right—particularly in the mobilization, representation, and sustenance of structural white supremacy on television.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNygaard and Lagerwey examine a cycle of dark television comedies, the focus of which are “horrible white people,” by putting them in conversation with similar upmarket comedies from creators and casts of color like \u003ci\u003eInsecure\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Dear White People\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMaster of None\u003c\/i\u003e. Through their analysis, they demonstrate the ways these non-white-centric shows negotiate prestige TV’s dominant aesthetics of whiteness and push back against the centering of white suffering in a time of cultural crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the lens of media analysis and feminist cultural studies, Nygaard and Lagerwey’s book opens up new ways of looking at contemporary television consumption—and the political, cultural, and social repercussions of these “horrible white people” shows, both on- and off-screen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor Nygaard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48088848531707,"sku":"9781479805334","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_b57b553c-b1bb-417c-8db7-ea246ae07d40.jpg?v=1770442707","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/horrible-white-people-9781479805334","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}