The first high-quality history of race relations and television.
Contains new archive research from the BBC, ITV and the government and numerous original interviews
Relevant to high-profile stories under discussion, about censorship, relations between media and state, race relations, and re-opens the discussion about the representation of Black and Asian people on TV, about the handling of the BNP, and about the rights and wrongs of making jokes about race
Gavin Schaffer is Professor of Modern History at the University of Birmingham, UK. His previous books include Racial Science and British Society, 1930-62 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Telling the stories behind television's approaches to race relations, multiculturalism and immigration in the 'Golden Age' of British television, the book focuses on the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the makers of television worked tirelessly to shape multiculturalism and undermine racist extremism.
1. The Vision of a Nation: Introduction 2. The First Bridge: Programmes for Immigrants on British Television 3. Race in News and Current Affairs: Principles and Practice 4. Dealing with Racial Extremes: News and Current Affairs under Pressure 5. What's behind the Open Door? Talking Back on Race in Public-Access Broadcasting 6. The Rise and Fall of the Racial Sitcom: Laughter and Prejudice in Multicultural Britain 7. Struggling for the Ordinary: Race in British Television Drama 8. Conclusion
"Schaffer's training and expertise comes through in the carefully constructed chronological narratives in the individual chapters which he writes. ... The book tells us much about the power of television, the attitudes of the elites who controlled TV and the inherent nature of racism in post-war Britain. It would be impossible to teach a course on contemporary Britain without using The Vision of a Nation." - Contemporary British History
"Schaffer's study ... builds on existing work by scholars like Sarita Malik, Stephen Bourne, Karen Ross and Darrell Newton, but adds a good deal that is new, in what is a well-researched, copiously referenced and excellently presented historical account." - European Journal of Communication
"The sources used are extensive and impressive. ... [A] very readable and thoroughly researched volume on a complex and often contentious topic. It should be of interest to students and researchers of media and cultural studies together with historians of modern Britain." - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Telling the stories behind television's approaches to race relations, multiculturalism and immigration in the 'Golden Age' of British television, the book focuses on the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the makers of television worked tirelessly to shape multiculturalism and undermine racist extremism.
Telling the stories behind television's approaches to race relations, multiculturalism and immigration in the 'Golden Age' of British television, the book focuses on the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the makers of television worked tirelessly to shape multiculturalism and undermine racist extremism.
1. The Vision of a Nation: Introduction 2. The First Bridge: Programmes for Immigrants on British Television 3. Race in News and Current Affairs: Principles and Practice 4. Dealing with Racial Extremes: News and Current Affairs under Pressure 5. What's behind the Open Door? Talking Back on Race in Public-Access Broadcasting 6. The Rise and Fall of the Racial Sitcom: Laughter and Prejudice in Multicultural Britain 7. Struggling for the Ordinary: Race in British Television Drama 8. Conclusion
"Schaffer's training and expertise comes through in the carefully constructed chronological narratives in the individual chapters which he writes. ... The book tells us much about the power of television, the attitudes of the elites who controlled TV and the inherent nature of racism in post-war Britain. It would be impossible to teach a course on contemporary Britain without using The Vision of a Nation." - Contemporary British History
"Schaffer's study ... builds on existing work by scholars like Sarita Malik, Stephen Bourne, Karen Ross and Darrell Newton, but adds a good deal that is new, in what is a well-researched, copiously referenced and excellently presented historical account." - European Journal of Communication
"The sources used are extensive and impressive. ... [A] very readable and thoroughly researched volume on a complex and often contentious topic. It should be of interest to students and researchers of media and cultural studies together with historians of modern Britain." - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Über den Autor
Gavin Schaffer
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The Vision of a Nation: Introduction 2. The First Bridge: Programmes for Immigrants on British Television 3. Race in News and Current Affairs: Principles and Practice 4. Dealing with Racial Extremes: News and Current Affairs under Pressure 5. What's behind the Open Door? Talking Back on Race in Public-Access Broadcasting 6. The Rise and Fall of the Racial Sitcom: Laughter and Prejudice in Multicultural Britain 7. Struggling for the Ordinary: Race in British Television Drama 8. Conclusion
Klappentext
Telling the stories behind television's approaches to race relations, multiculturalism and immigration in the 'Golden Age' of British television, the book focuses on the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the makers of television worked tirelessly to shape multiculturalism and undermine racist extremism.
The book makes the point that TV had a 'vision' of what kind of nation we should be - and that this has had a considerable influence on the way we think about race and our national identity
