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1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations |
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Culture America |
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Culture America.
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Acknowledgments -- 1. Black Bodies, White Space, and a Televisual Nation -- 2. Television, Reality, and Cold War Citizenship -- 3. Disneyland, the Interstate, and National Space -- 4. The Adult Western and the Western Bloc -- 5. Rebel Integrity, Southern Injustice, and Civil Rights -- 6. The New Frontier -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"Alan Nadel's new book reminds us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences. Television did not invent whiteness for America, but it did reinforce it as the norm - particularly during the Cold War years. Nadel now shows just how instrumental it was in constructing a narrow, conservative, and very white vision of America." "During this era, prime-time TV was dominated by "adult Westerns," with heroes like The Rebel's Johnny Yuma reincarnating Southern values and Bonanza's Cartwright family reinforcing the notion of white patriarchy - programs that, Nadel shows, bristled with Cold War messages even as they spoke to the nation's mythology. America had become visually reconfigured as a vast Ponderosa, crisscrossed by concrete highways designed to carry suburban white drivers beyond the moral challenge of racism, racial poverty, and increasingly vocal civil rights demands."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Black people on television.
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White people on television.
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States
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National characteristics, American.
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Black people on television.
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National characteristics, American.
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Race relations.
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects.
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White people on television.
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Televisie.
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Negers.
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Blanken.
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Rassenverhoudingen.
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Nationale identiteit.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005012610 |
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