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1	Colorblind TV : primetime politics of race in television casting Warner, Kristen Jamaya 07 December 2010 (has links) Colorblind TV: Primetime Politics of Race in Television Casting posits that in our current racially colorblind society, oftentimes actors of color are cast to prove that multiculturalism is important. However, the characters often have little cultural specificity and are only different in terms of skin tone. While this type of sameness on the surface may appear to offer a sense of racial parity, it actually encourages the opposite. Colorblindness works to make race immutable and objective, which inevitably disallows difference and instead outputs “whiteness” as the normative standard. Through a series of interviews with casting directors and actors guild diversity representatives as well as an ethnographic account of an actual casting audition, the dissertation argues that for the media industry, colorblindness is both a way of avoiding the messiness of race and of denying actors of color the ability to be culturally specific. This denial occurs because ultimately the desire to work supersedes the desire to reject role universality. As a case study, I examine the hit ABC primetime show Grey’s Anatomy (2005- ) as a way of illustrating how the blindcasting process became a part of public discourse that the television industry both praised and disowned. / text The wire Diversity Television studies Media production studies Grey's anatomy Race Casting Racism Blindcasting Whitewashing Post-racialism
2	„You’re Supposed To Wear Heels“ Wegner, Gesine 21 April 2023 (has links) Gesine Wegners (M. A.) amerikanistischer Beitrag „‚You‘re Supposed To Wear Heels‘. Imaginationen (nicht-)behinderter Weiblichkeit in Grey’s Anatomy“ widmet sich der Populärkultur, speziell dem US-amerikanischen Fernsehen. Methodisch ist er im forschungsgeschichtlich jungen Feld der Feminist Disability Studies und ihrem Interesse an der symbolischen Repräsentation körperlich behinderter Menschen verortet. Mittels literaturwissenschaftlicher Instrumentarien analysiert der Aufsatz zunächst die derzeitige mediale Sicht auf körperlich behinderte Frauen in der international erfolgreichen TV-Serie Grey‘s Anatomy, um das texteigene Narrativ anschließend am allgemeinen amerikanischen Diskurs über Behinderung und Weiblichkeit zu kontextualisieren. Der Beitrag zeigt auf, dass der gewählte Primärtext die dominanten Erzählmuster über Behinderung zwar an einigen Stellen aufbricht, sie aber in weitaus mehr Momenten stabilisiert und validiert. Hierfür konstitutiv ist die Performierung traditioneller Weiblichkeit, die das texteigene Behinderungsnarrativ rahmt und semantisch grundiert. Die Untersuchung verdeutlicht, dass Grey‘s Anatomy, entgegen ihrer Reputation als progressive und feministische Erfolgsserie, stark restriktive und konsumorientierte Bilder von Weiblichkeit popularisiert. Grey's Anatomy, Femininity, Disability info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/300 ddc:300 info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/305.309 ddc:305.309
3	The Rainbow Effect: Exploring the Implications of Queer Representation in Film and Television on Social Change Reddy, Maya S 01 January 2014 (has links) In this thesis, I explore how specific films and television shows use the preexisting structure and mechanics of narrative film in order to create queer characters and stories that defy their otherness and stereotypes, thus creating a profound cinematic experience. Not only does the manipulation of these structures and mechanics heighten the realism and depth of the narrative at hand, it also enhances audience identification by allowing queer viewers to find themselves and straight viewers to understand the “other.” In this manner, the New New Queer Cinema and television have had lasting effects on the modern gay rights movement, changing perceptions and attitudes of society on an extremely personal level and making way for incredible strides in public policy changes. film television queer queer rights pretty little liars boys don't cry the good wife grey's anatomy tumblr fans new queer cinema new new queer cinema laura mulvey Film and Media Studies Television
4	A critical analysis of ideological narratives in contemporary US network television series / Analyse critique des récits idéologiques dans les séries télévisées américaines contemporaines des networks de Wasseige, Mathieu 18 October 2011 (has links) This critical study unveils the ideological underpinning of contemporary network series narratives through a thematic approach combined with the analysis of the strategies of representation that support the ideological inclination of the series/Cette analyse critique dévoile l'idéologie sous-jacente des séries télévisées contemporaines des networks américains par une approche thématique combinée à une analyse des stratégies de représentations qui appuient la tendance idéologique de ces séries / Doctorat en Langues et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished Sciences humaines Langues et littératures Popular culture -- United States Ideology -- United States Culture populaire -- Etats-Unis Idéologie -- Etats-Unis 24 heures chrono A la maison blanche Networks Les experts CSI Desperate Housewives Grey's Anatomy Cold Case/Télévision Cold Case Television Series séries idéologie networks The West Wing 24 Ideology

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