Color Adjustment / California Newsreel (Firm).

This award-winning documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs takes a close look at how network television absorbed deep-seated racial conflict and transformed it into the nonthreatening offerings of 20th-century primetime TV. Narrated by Ruby Dee, the film examines popular programs such as A...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], ©1991.
Series:Films on Demand.
Subjects:
African Americans > History.
Mass media and culture.
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Genre:
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (88 min.) : sound, color, digital file.
Format: Electronic Video
Contents:
  • The Country's Image of the Negro... (1:57)
  • Part 1 Color Blind TV? 1948-1968 (2:14)
  • Television Finding Itself (1:45)
  • "Amos 'n Andy" (1:51)
  • Black Actors Respond to "Amos 'n Andy" (0:59)
  • End of "Amos 'n Andy" (2:56)
  • "The Beulah Show" (2:41)
  • Reality of Domestic Workers (1:17)
  • White Families as Center of Prime Time (1:52)
  • Relatable Black Perfomers (1:47)
  • "Nat King Cole Show" (4:12)
  • "Nat King Cole Show" Cancelled (2:15)
  • Network & Sponsor Perspective (1:48)
  • Civil Rights Movement in America's Living Rooms (3:24)
  • East Side/West Side (3:05)
  • "Julia" - Perfect and One Dimensional (3:41)
  • Aunt Jemima and Uncle Tom are Dead (3:13)
  • The White Negro (2:13)
  • Two Black Americas: News & Prime Time (2:13)
  • Mandate to Amuse (2:11)
  • Part II - Coloring the Dream 1968 -1988 (2:26)
  • "All in the Family" (2:21)
  • The Changing Prime Time Family (1:52)
  • "Good Times" (3:00)
  • "Good Times" Potential and Failure (2:16)
  • Ghetto Sitcoms of the '70s (2:22)
  • "Roots" (3:12)
  • Kunta Kinte (2:04)
  • "Positive Stories Can Be Equally Negative" (2:04)
  • "The Cosby Show" (2:23)
  • 1980s Polarization of Rich and Poor (2:18)
  • Reaffirming Middle Class Values (1:05)
  • "Frank's Place" (4:15)
  • What is Television's Responsibility? (3:26)
  • Understanding How Inequality Operates & is Perpetuated (1:33)
  • African Americans & Pop Culture (1:22)
  • Credits: Color Adjustment (2:01)