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Maid for Television: Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy

Maid for Television: Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy

Kim, L. S.

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TelevisionGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 1978826990
ISBN13: 9781978826991
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Aug 11 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Honorable Mention -- Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in the Media, Performance, and Visual Studies category

Maid for Television examines race, class, and gender relations as embodied in a long history of television servants from 1950 to the turn of the millennium. Although they reside at the visual peripheries, these figures are integral to the idealized American family. Author L. S. Kim redirects viewers' gaze towards the usually overlooked interface between characters, which is drawn through race, class, and gender positioning. Maid for Television tells the stories of servants and the families they work for, in so doing it investigates how Americans have dealt with difference through television as a medium and a mediator.The book philosophically redirects the gaze of television and its projection of racial discourse.

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