African American Women in the Oprah Winfrey Network's Queen Sugar Drama by Ollie L. JeffersonISBN: 9781793628862
Date: 2021-01-15
Ollie L. Jefferson highlights the best practices used by African American female executive producers, Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay, by examining Queen Sugar as a case study. The investigation shows how the decision-makers produced multidimensional female characters to illustrate the complex humanity of Black lives. This book broadens understanding of the media industry's need for culturally sensitive and conscious inclusion of women and people of color behind the scenes--as media owners, creators, writers, directors, and producers--to put an end to the persistent and pervasive misrepresentations of African American women on screen. Scholars of television studies, film studies, media studies, race studies, and women's studies will find this book particularly useful.