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180 Days Rental Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain

180 Days Rental Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain
Author: Christine Grandy
Price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 9781009650915R
ISBN-13: 9781009650915R
Edition: -1
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Delivery: BibliU Reader
Duration: 180 Days

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What did audiences want when it came to 'race' on screen in twentieth-century Britain? This was the question that drove producers and makers of film and television as they competed for viewers, and organisations such as the BBC and ITV developed a new field of 'audience research' to address it. Christine Grandy examines how film and television producers, censors and researchers sought to locate audience preferences when it came to presentations of 'race'. Through empire films, home movies and television classics such as Love Thy Neighbour and The Cosby Show, this study explores what was at stake for white British audiences as they consumed material featuring problematic and positive presentations of Black and south Asian people. Race on Screen further uncovers the efforts of Black and south Asian audiences to draw attention to their own roles as overlooked audiences and to name film and television content as racist.