383
Whiteness and White Characters in Good Times
Proceedings of International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences - 2022
Angela M. Nelson
Dr. Omid Noroozi, Dr. Ismail Sahin
978-1-952092-33-6
111-116
Tandem/TAT Productions (headed by Norman Lear and Alan “Bud” Yorkin) along with MTM Enterprises (headed by Grant Tinker) dominated American television programming in the 1970s producing many successful situation comedies on the CBS network. Kirsten Marthe Lentz notes that while both production companies were credited with “transforming the situation comedy, making it more complex and more responsive to the social and political changes resulting from the civil rights and black power movement and the burgeoning feminist movement,” the television industry adopted two kinds of terminologies for describing these new shows. MTM grew to represent “quality television” while Tandem/TAT represented “relevant programming.” Lear’s sitcoms generated much discussion among journalists and viewers commenting on their treatment of race and racism and American racial politics in general. It is this point of departure that is particularly significant regarding Lear’s three seventies Black-oriented sitcoms, Sanford and Son, Good Times, and The Jeffersons. Performing a close analysis of representative episodes, this paper examines Lear’s treatment of whiteness in Good Times showing that the series engaged with whiteness in three fundamental ways: narrative, communicative, and performative.
Nelson, A.M. (2022). Whiteness and White Characters in Good Times. In O. Noroozi & I. Sahin (Eds.), Proceedings of IHSES 2022-- International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences (pp. 111-116), Los Angeles, USA. ISTES Organization.
More Info DownloadPages: 18-32
More Info DownloadPages: 33-42
More Info DownloadPages: 43-60
More Info DownloadPages: 61-71
More Info DownloadPages: 72-78
More Info DownloadPages: 79-94
More Info DownloadPages: 95-110
More Info DownloadPages: 111-116
More Info DownloadPages: 117-124
More Info DownloadPages: 125-132
More Info DownloadPages: 133-142
More Info DownloadPages: 143-151
More Info DownloadPages: 152-162
More Info DownloadPages: 163-169
More Info DownloadPages: 170-177
More Info DownloadPages: 178-181
More Info DownloadPages: 182-187
More Info DownloadPages: 188-197
More Info DownloadPages: 198-202
More Info DownloadPages: 203-217
More Info DownloadPages: 218-229
More Info DownloadPages: 230-237
More Info DownloadPages: 238-248
More Info DownloadPages: 249-261
More Info DownloadPages: 262-274
More Info DownloadPages: 275-285
Conferences linked with International Society for Technology, Education and Science (ISTES): International Conference on Social and Education Sciences (IConSES) – USA: www.iconses.net Int...
January 19, 2022
Journals linked with International Society for Technology, Education and Science (ISTES): International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology (IJEMST): www.ijemst.net ...
November 26, 2020
Call for Book Chapters on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education The International Society for Technology, Education and Science (ISTES) is interested in chapters with a focus on...
January 03, 2020