[FoME] WG: [IAMCR] New book on race, media, globalization

[Wolf Ludwig]

Just FYI - with regards,
Wolf

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Havens, Timothy J sent Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:35:
>Friends and colleagues,
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>I'm pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Black Television Travels: African American Media Around the Globe from NYU Press's Critical Cultural Communication Studies series.
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>My apologies for cross-posting.
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>Black Television Travels<https://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=2694> explores the globalization of African American television and the way in which foreign markets, programming strategies, and viewer preferences have influenced portrayals of African Americans on the small screen. Television executives have been notoriously slow to recognize the potential popularity of black characters and themes, both at home and abroad. As American television brokers increasingly seek revenues abroad, their assumptions about saleability and audience perceptions directly influence the global circulation of these programs, as well as their content. Black Television Travels aims to reclaim the history of African American television circulation in an effort to correct and counteract this predominant industry lore.
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>Based on interviews with television executives and programmers from around the world, as well as producers in the United States, Havens traces the shift from an era when national television networks often blocked African American television from traveling abroad to the transnational, post-network era of today. While globalization has helped to expand diversity in African American television, particularly in regard to genre, it has also resulted in restrictions, such as in the limited portrayal of African American women in favor of attracting young male demographics across racial and national boundaries. Havens underscores the importance of examining boardroom politics as part of racial discourse in the late modern era, when transnational cultural industries like television are the primary sources for dominant representations of blackness.
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>Timothy Havens, MFA, Ph. D
>Associate Professor
>Communication Studies, African American Studies, International Studies
>105 BCSB, 512 JB
>The University of Iowa
>Iowa City, IA 52246
>(319) 335-0614, 384-3329
>FAX: 319-335-2930
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>Check out my new book, Black Television Travels<http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookid=2694#.UUeGPutGIVw>
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