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Color Adjustment is a 1992 documentary film that traces 40 years of race relations and the representation of African Americans through the lens of prime-time television entertainment, scrutinizing television's racial myths.
- Mary Watkins
- Marlon Riggs
- Signifyin' Works
- Vivian Kleiman, Marlon Riggs
29. Jan. 1992 · With Steven Bochco, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Henry Louis Gates Jr.. Analyzes the evolution of television's earlier, unflattering portrayal of blacks from 1948 until 1988, when they are depicted as prosperous and as having achieved the American dream, a portrayal that is inconsistent with reality.
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- Documentary
- Marlon Riggs
- 1992-01-29
Color Adjustment. What does the American dream look like? Where do Black Americans fit into it? And what is television’s role in shaping our views of racial progress and the idealized American family? Picking up where the groundbreaking Ethnic Notions left off, this pioneering work of media studies by Marlon Riggs presents a complicated, ...
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4. Feb. 2021 · Color Adjustment is Riggs’ follow-up to 1987’s Ethnic Notions, a documentary that examined how Black people in the U.S. were stereotyped and caricatured in the pre-broadcast era.
29. Jan. 1992 · Play Trailer. A History of African American Portrayal on Television. Overview. From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television.
Color Adjustment is a powerful assessment of how Blacks were portrayed on American television up until 1992. Producer/director/writer Marlon Riggs would pass away just two years later from AIDS. Definitely check it out.
Analyzes the evolution of television's earlier, unflattering portrayal of blacks from 1948 until 1988, when they are depicted as prosperous and as having achieved the American dream, a portrayal that is inconsistent with reality.
