Negotiating Civil Rights in Prime Time A Production and Reception History of CBS's East Side/West Side  

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Bodroghkozy, Aniko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Television and New Media vol. 4 no. 3 (Agu. 2003), page 257–282.
Topik: African Americans and television; civil rights movement and television; race relations and television; liberalism and television; television audiences; television history
Fulltext: 257TVNM43.pdf (135.94KB)

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This article examines a controversial 1963-1964 socially relevant drama series that engaged viewers, critics, and television industry personnel with issues around Kennedy-era liberalism. The article specifically looks at two celebrated episodes dealing with race - one about the plight ofghetto inhabitants, the other about white fears when blacks begin moving into an all-white suburban neighborhood. Using viewer mail in series producer David Susskind's collected papers, the article examines how mostly Northern, white viewers used the show to make sense ofchanges in race relations in the midst of the civilrights movement. Using internal production memos and other sources, the article also charts the difficulties encountered by the show's producers in getting a series about "urgent issues" onto the airwaves.

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