Gender and Race in Postwar Variety Television

Auteur

Meenasarani Linde Murugan is Assistant Professor of Screen Studies in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, USA　

Texte du rabat

This book 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.

Contenu

Introduction - Recovering the Variety of Postwar Television

1. "Come on-a My House": Hosting and Intimacy

2. "Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark": Race and Racism on Primetime TV

3. "C'est la TV": Small Screen Glamour and Fashioning Cosmopolitanism

4. Getting to Know You: Variety Television and the Cold War Project

5. "Your generation gap is showing": Costume Changes and Keeping up with Youth Culture

Conclusion - Tonight Goes back to The Roots