Representations of Black Womanhood on Television

Being Mara Brock Akil
Herausgeber: Brown White, Shauntae; Harris, Kandace L.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Being Mara Brock Akil examines the body of work of the showrunner who produced Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane, and Love Is___ . Grounded in Black Feminist Thought, this book analyzes themes that define Black womanhood and examine audience reception and social media interaction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9781498592680
• ISBN-10: 1498592686
• Artikelnr.: 61182288

Autorenporträt

Kandace L. Harris is special assistant to the president and associate professor of mass communication and media studies at Shaw University. Shauntae Brown White is coordinator of the Women's and Gender Studies program and associate professor in the Department of Mass Communication at North Carolina Central University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Being Mara
Chapter 1: 'Girlfriends - There, Through Thick and Thin!': African American
Female Sisterhood and the Quest for Happiness
Chapter 2: Professional Success, Personal Turmoil: The Black Working Woman
Image in Girlfriends
Chapter 3: Real, Respectable, or Both: Respectability on Being Mary Jane
through the Words of Mara Brock Akil
Chapter 4: 'Girl, You Know I Got You:' The Ideology of Sisterhood on Being
Mary Jane
Chapter 5: What Love Is and Is Not: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Chapter 6: Navigating The Game of Life: Women Viewers & The Game
Chapter 7: Social Networks, Television and Black Women: An Analysis of
Facebook Representations of Being Mary Jane
Chapter 8: Social TV and Stereotypes: The Social Construction of
#BeingMaryJane on Twitter
Chapter 9: @MaraAkil: An Analysis of the Mara's Balance of Life, Family and
Production on Instagram
Afterword