African American Women in the Oprah Winfrey Network's Queen Sugar Drama

Exemplary Representations On Screen and Behind the Scenes

Ollie L. Jefferson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781793628862 (ISBN)

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This book illustrates how Queen Sugar acts as an industry model for exemplary representation of Black women in television. The author demonstrates how the narrative can change when culturally sensitive and conscious women of color tell their own stories

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.

Ollie L. Jefferson is visiting assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction and Overview: Transforming the Storylines Above-the-Lines
Chapter 1: Mass Media Myths and Misrepresentations
Chapter 2: Television Typecasts
Chapter 3: Media Exclusion to Inclusion
Chapter 4: Multimedia Mogul Trending New Ground
Chapter 5: Changing the Channel: Mainstream Media Messages
Chapter 6: Inclusive Crew Commentary on Countering Narratives
Chapter 7: Complex Characters Countering Stereotypes
Chapter 8: Cultural Context in Community
Chapter 9: The Businesswoman On-Screen
Chapter 10: The Activist Woman On-Screen
Chapter 11: The Seasoned Woman On-Screen
Chapter 12: The Reformed Woman On-Screen
Chapter 13: The Sisterhood Series for Social Change
Conclusion: Exemplary Images, Inclusion & Impact
Definition of Key Terms
References
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	1 b/w illustrations; 4 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 227 mm
Gewicht	581 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781793628862 / 9781793628862
Zustand	Neuware