Black and Blue TV

Laurena Bernabo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2026
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4411-7 (ISBN)

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Black and Blue TV explores the ways television productions have responded to the Black Lives Matter movement. Television programs’ engagement with BLM was common before George Floyd’s murder sparked international protests in the summer of 2020, at which point it became nearly unavoidable for many series. Images of police using violence against Black Americans fueled criticisms of the role of television—especially cop shows—in perpetuating “copaganda,” highlighting the fact that television’s cops are nearly always the good guys, even when they break the law and use excessive force. Black and Blue TV identifies trends and anomalies in television’s engagement with BLM but also investigates the people who influence what those representations look like. Pairing textual criticism with interviews with television creatives, executives, and media activists, author Laurena Bernabo traces shifts in how these individuals understand their role in televisual culture, and the cultural forum of narratives that are produced and distributed as a result.

Laurena Bernabo is an assistant professor of entertainment and media studies in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.

Contents
Introduction
1 BLM and DEI: On- and Off-Screen Diversity Initiatives
2 Early-BLM Cop Shows (2013-2020): Adjusting to a New Normal
3 Post-Floyd TVPD: How Policing is Broken and Why it Will Never Be Fixed
4 Beyond the Police Procedural: Black Lives Matter in Comedies and Dramas, Too
5 Beyond 2020: Or, Back to Business as Usual?
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.3.2026
Zusatzinfo	20 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-4411-5 / 1978844115
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-4411-7 / 9781978844117
Zustand	Neuware