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Maid for Television: Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy de L. S. Kim

Maid for Television: Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy

Autor L. S. Kim
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 aug 2023 – vârsta ani
Honorable Mention -- Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in the Media, Performance, and Visual Studies category

Maid for Television examines race, class, and gender relations as embodied in a long history of television servants from 1950 to the turn of the millennium. Although they reside at the visual peripheries, these figures are integral to the idealized American family. Author L. S. Kim redirects viewers' gaze towards the usually overlooked interface between characters, which is drawn through race, class, and gender positioning. Maid for Television tells the stories of servants and the families they work for, in so doing it investigates how Americans have dealt with difference through television as a medium and a mediator.The book philosophically redirects the gaze of television and its projection of racial discourse.
 
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ISBN-13: 9781978826991
ISBN-10: 1978826990
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 30 B-W images
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.05 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press

Notă biografică

L. S. KIM is an associate professor in the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written about race, class, gender, and genre for The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media, The Sage Handbook of Television Studies, Flow TV, Journal of Film and Video, Anti-Feminisms in Media Culture, and Ms. Magazine. She serves on the Ms. Committee of Scholars, and has served on the American Film Institute Awards jury.  

Cuprins

1          Introduction: The Figure of the Racialized Domestic in American Television        
2          Domesticating Blackness: African Americans in Service in Comedy and Drama
3          Shades of Whiteness: White Servants Keeping Up a Class Ideal
4          Unresolvable Roles: Asian American Servants as Perpetual Foreigners
5          Invisible but Viewable: The Latina Maid in the Age of Nannygate
Epilogue         
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography  
Index

Recenzii

"Maid for Television is a rigorously intersectional and interdisciplinary study that places the racialized domestic servant at the center of U.S. television history. This figure is ubiquitously invisible, yet also absolutely essential to maintaining the white middle-class family as the nation’s social, economic, and political norm."

"L.S. Kim’s panethnic media history of domestic workers in American television illuminates the oft-overlooked figure of the intimate other while weaving a compelling tale of racialized feminized labor in the United States. Kim explores the disruptive and pleasurable acts of agency performed by these minoritized characters and the underrecognized actors who portray them, particularly how they challenge white, heteropatriarchal notions of kinship, romance, and social relations. Kim’s impeccably researched study is a vital resource for understanding the role that the formerly ubiquitous cast of domestic servants have played in various racial and national imaginaries throughout the 20th and 21st centuries."

Descriere

Maid for Television examines the racialized female domestic by tracing the maid’s representational and narrative function in American television. As domestic service has been a long-standing occupation for women of color, the figure of the maid in the employer’s home is a recurrent and patterned image, simultaneously enacting and revealing the nexus of race, class, and gender hierarchies in American culture.