1st Edition

Not a Pretty Picture Ethnic Minority Views of Television

By Robert Mullan Copyright 1996
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1996, ethnic minorities in the UK made up over 5% of the population yet were hardly represented in the hundreds of hours of terrestrial broadcast television each week. The blatant racism of The Black and White Minstrel Show was over, but more subtle forms of racism were piped into our living rooms in an endless stream of white-dominated programming. ‘Comedies’ and soaps... Read more

Introduction.  Part 1: Mass Media and Ethnic Relations  1. Background  Part 2: The Survey  2. Television in the Home  3. Questions of Impartiality and Bias  4. Offence and Regulation  5. The Importance of Television  Part 3: The Future of Television and Ethnic Relations  6. Alternative Television.  Bibliography.

Biography

Robert Mullan