A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Tim Havens discusses newer developments in high-end transnational television dramas, specifically noting the turn toward a stronger sense of place through “conspicuous localism.”
Tim Havens explores the surge in high-quality black-cast dramas offered by subscription television services. By comparing contemporary series such as Showtime’s The Chi with African American television of the past, Havens asserts the industry is beginning to splinter the African American audience along divisions of taste cultures.
Tim Havens considers Netflix as a case study to develop a typology for studying the role of algorithmic audience analysis in commercial African American streaming culture.
Tim Havens / University of Iowa
As we enter a post-network television era, however, it is worth reassessing the promises and disappointments that came in the wake of Roots in order to understand the prospects for African American television today, especially dramatic series.
A Baby Story, it would seem, has become a present-day ritual for at least some segments of the expectant-parent population in the U.S.
“Guy-Coms” are making juvenile mascuinity hegemonic in U.S. culture.
