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African American Women in the Oprah Winfrey Network's Queen Sugar Drama
Exemplary Representations On Screen and Behind the Scenes
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2021
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This critical study interrogates the intersection of race and gender media representations on screen and behind the scenes. The thought-provoking investigation on the Oprah Winfrey Network’s Queen Sugar series shows the ways in which the television drama is a significant contribution to mainstream media that creates in-depth conversations concerning African American women’s social roles, social class, and social change. Ollie L. Jefferson provides a unique analysis of the television production by using the exemplary representations conceptual framework to contextualize and theorize research contributing to systemic change. Jefferson highlights the best practices used by African American female executive producers, Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay, by examining Queen Sugar as a case study. The investigation shows how the decision-makers produced multidimensional female characters to illustrate the complex humanity of Black lives. This book broadens understanding of the media industry’s need for culturally sensitive and conscious inclusion of women and people of color behind the scenes—as media owners, creators, writers, directors, and producers—to put an end to the persistent and pervasive misrepresentations of African American women on screen. Scholars of television studies, film studies, media studies, race studies, and women’s studies will find this book particularly useful.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2886-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2887-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
260
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Introduction and Overview No access Pages 1 - 32
Chapter 1 Mass Media Myths and Misrepresentations No access Pages 33 - 48
Chapter 2 Television Typecasts No access Pages 49 - 70
Chapter 3 Media Exclusion to Inclusion No access Pages 71 - 92
Chapter 4 Multimedia Mogul Trending New Ground No access Pages 93 - 106
Chapter 5 Changing the Channel No access Pages 107 - 112
Chapter 6 Inclusive Crew and Commentary on Countering Narratives No access Pages 113 - 132
