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Visibility Matters: The Pursuit of American Belonging in an Age of Moving Images.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
書名/作者:	Visibility Matters: The Pursuit of American Belonging in an Age of Moving Images.
作者:	Distelberg, Brian Joseph.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, , 2015
面頁冊數:	329 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-11A(E).
標題:	American history.
標題:	African American studies.
標題:	Mass communication.
標題:	Black history.
ISBN:	9781321935882
摘要、提要註:	Visibility Matters examines the history of a long-held American conviction: that to be fully present and fairly portrayed in movies and on television is both a prelude to other forms of inclusion and, in itself, an essential part of national belonging. Virtually since the birth of the motion picture as a commercial entertainment with a mass audience in the 1910s, through the movies' maturation and then their midcentury battle with television for supremacy, and on to the rise of network television as the predominant medium for mass entertainment by the 1960s and 1970s, this conviction prompted racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, and eventually other marginalized social groups as well, to criticize what they saw on screen, and to organize and agitate to change it. In their pursuit of fair representation, they studied and analyzed moving images and their effects, picketed and boycotted particular pictures and programs, appealed to governments to regulate screen content and diversify employment in the motion picture and television industries, and negotiated directly with producers for specific changes in content and to facilitate routine consultation. Even as Irish Americans and Jews, African Americans and women, and Latinos and gays and lesbians struggled to dismantle the legal, political, and social structures that enforced their marginalization, many were preoccupied by whether people like them were fairly represented on screen. They were certain that their visibility mattered.

Visibility Matters: The Pursuit of American Belonging in an Age of Moving Images.
Distelberg, Brian Joseph.

Visibility Matters: The Pursuit of American Belonging in an Age of Moving Images. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 329 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2015.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Visibility Matters examines the history of a long-held American conviction: that to be fully present and fairly portrayed in movies and on television is both a prelude to other forms of inclusion and, in itself, an essential part of national belonging. Virtually since the birth of the motion picture as a commercial entertainment with a mass audience in the 1910s, through the movies' maturation and then their midcentury battle with television for supremacy, and on to the rise of network television as the predominant medium for mass entertainment by the 1960s and 1970s, this conviction prompted racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, and eventually other marginalized social groups as well, to criticize what they saw on screen, and to organize and agitate to change it. In their pursuit of fair representation, they studied and analyzed moving images and their effects, picketed and boycotted particular pictures and programs, appealed to governments to regulate screen content and diversify employment in the motion picture and television industries, and negotiated directly with producers for specific changes in content and to facilitate routine consultation. Even as Irish Americans and Jews, African Americans and women, and Latinos and gays and lesbians struggled to dismantle the legal, political, and social structures that enforced their marginalization, many were preoccupied by whether people like them were fairly represented on screen. They were certain that their visibility mattered.

ISBN: 9781321935882Subjects--Topical Terms:

629870
American history.

Visibility Matters: The Pursuit of American Belonging in an Age of Moving Images.
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