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Starring Mandela and Cosby: Media and the End(s) of Apartheid by Ron Krabill
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- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2010-09-15
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN
- 9780226451886
- Book Title
- Starring Mandela and Cosby : Media and the End(s) of Apartheid
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, History, Social Science, Performing Arts, Political Science
- Topic
- Media Studies, Television / History & Criticism, Sociology / General, Television / General, Television & Video, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, World / African
- Item Weight
- 14.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 200 Pages
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During the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa among both Black and White South Africans was "The Cosby Show." Why did people living under a system built on the idea that Black people were inferior and threatening flock to a show that portrayed African Americans as comfortably mainstream? "Starring Mandela and Cosby" takes up this paradox, revealing the surprising impact of television on racial politics. The South African government maintained a ban on television until 1976, and according to Ron Krabill, they were right to be wary of its potential power. The medium, he contends, created a shared space for communication in a deeply divided nation that seemed destined for civil war along racial lines. At a time when it was illegal to publish images of Nelson Mandela, Bill Cosby became the most recognizable Black man in the country, and, Krabill argues, his presence in the living rooms of white South Africans helped lay the groundwork for Mandela s release and ascension to power. Weaving together South Africa s political history and a social history of television, Krabill challenges conventional understandings of globalization, offering up new insights into the relationship between politics and the media."
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226451887
ISBN-13
9780226451886
eBay Product ID (ePID)
84545359
Product Key Features
Book Title
Starring Mandela and Cosby : Media and the End(s) of Apartheid
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Media Studies, Television / History & Criticism, Sociology / General, Television / General, Television & Video, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, World / African
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History, Social Science, Performing Arts, Political Science
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
22
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"Ron Krabill has provided students of race, television, and cultural exchange with a new landmark that we all must read--and will all enjoy. In an era when we are told that race should not matter, TV is finished, and cultural exchange has been eased through YouTube, he brings us back to reality. Bravo!"Toby Miller, author of Television Studies: The Basics, Ron Krabill has provided students of race, television, and cultural exchange with a new landmark that we all must read--and will all enjoy. In an era when we are told that race should not matter, TV is finished, and cultural exchange has been eased through YouTube, he brings us back to reality. Bravo!, This is a wonderfully fluid, fluent, and extraordinarily well-written analysis. Krabill has immersed himself in his story and he provides a theoretically refreshing way of telling it. He senses the contextual experiential nuance and the local-global texture of events as they unfolded, and by locating his narrative within the analytical nexus between Mandela and Cosby, the U.S. and South Africa, he appeals to readers across disciplines., "This pathbreaking study of television in Apartheid South Africa is at once a fascinating history and a penetrating exploration how race, media, and globalization shape politics and culture in sometimes counterintuitive ways. It should change both the way we think about South Africa's past and how we study the political dynamics of media in the present."Sean Jacobs, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School, "Ron Krabill has provided students of race, television, and cultural exchange with a new landmark that we all must read--and will all enjoy. In an era when we are told that race should not matter, TV is finished, and cultural exchange has been eased through YouTube, he brings us back to reality. Bravo!"-Toby Miller, author ofTelevision Studies: The Basics, This pathbreaking study of television in Apartheid South Africa is at once a fascinating history and a penetrating exploration how race, media, and globalization shape politics and culture in sometimes counterintuitive ways. It should change both the way we think about South Africa's past and how we study the political dynamics of media in the present., "This is a wonderfully fluid, fluent, and extraordinarily well-written analysis. Krabill has immersed himself in his story and he provides a theoretically refreshing way of telling it. He senses the contextual experiential nuance and the local-global texture of events as they unfolded, and by locating his narrative within the analytical nexus between Mandela and Cosby, the U.S. and South Africa, he appeals to readers across disciplines."--Keyan Tomaselli, author ofThe Cinema of Apartheid, "This is a wonderfully fluid, fluent, and extraordinarily well-written analysis. Krabill has immersed himself in his story and he provides a theoretically refreshing way of telling it. He senses the contextual experiential nuance and the local-global texture of events as they unfolded, and by locating his narrative within the analytical nexus between Mandela and Cosby, the U.S. and South Africa, he appeals to readers across disciplines."Keyan Tomaselli, author of The Cinema of Apartheid, Krabill's Starring Mandela and Cosby provides an unusual perspective on a phenomenon that may have been marginal in the bigger context of South Africa's transition towards democracy, but nevertheless adds an interesting view to the study of communication in authoritarian systems., This pathbreaking study of television in Apartheid South Africa is at once a fascinating history and a penetrating exploration how race, media, and globalization shape politics and culture in sometimes counterintuitive ways. It should change both the way we think about South Africa's past and how we study the political dynamics of media in the present.
Lccn
2010-005836
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
302.2/3450968
Lc Classification Number
Pn1992.3.S57k73 2010
Table of Content
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations INTRODUCTION / Media, Democratization, and the End(s) of Apartheid ONE / Structured Absences and Communicative Spaces TWO / In the Absence of Television THREE / "They Stayed 'til the Flag Streamed" FOUR / Surfing into Zulu FIVE / Living with the Huxtables in a State of Emergency SIX / I May Not Be a Freedom Fighter, but I Play One on TV CONCLUSION / Television and the Afterlife of Apartheid Postscript Notes Index
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2010
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