Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Zellmann Direct Marketing Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu REVOLUTION TELEVISED: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power Christine Acham University of Minnesota Press | 248 pages | 2004 ISBN 0-8166-4431-4 | hardcover | $24.95 Establishes the influence of the Black Liberation movement on black television of the 1960s and 1970s. Christine Acham offers a complex reading of African American television history, finding within programs like Sanford and Son and Good Times opposition to dominant white constructions of African American identity. Revolution Televised deftly illustrates how black television artists operated within the constraints of the television industry to resist and ultimately shape the mass media¹s portrayal of African American life. ³Revolution Televised is a brilliant, engaging, often eloquent book that offers a completely fresh take on black television in the seventies. Spurning the simplicity of Œnegative¹ versus Œpositive¹ images, it instead explores the complex forms of agency and resistance that black actors exercised, as well as probing the social circumstances and artistic options available to its creators. This is unquestionably the finest treatment of its subject that I have read, and will spark intense debate about the critical issues it raises for some time to come. A marvelous, poetic read!² ‹Michael Eric Dyson For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/A/acham_revolution.html WATCHING RACE: Television and the Struggle for Blackness Herman Gray University of Minnesota Press | 224 pages | 2004 ISBN 0-8166-4510-8 | paperback | $18.95 A classic examination of the cultural relationship between television and race‹with a new introduction! In the late 1980s and early 1990s television representations of African Americans exploded on the small screen. Starting with the portrayal of blacks on series such as The Jack Benny Show and Amos ¹n¹ Andy and continuing through The Cosby Show and In Living Color, Herman Gray shows how the meaning of blackness on screen has changed through the years. ³This is a complex, subtle, and very important book. Gray argues that television is the site where key racial moments (Rodney King, Hill-Thomas hearings, Simpson trial, Los Angeles riots) have been staged and interpreted for the American public.² ‹Contemporary Sociology For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/G/gray_watching.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html