Kathleen Fearn Banks The A to Z of African American Television (2009)

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.comDVD Talk: www.dvdtalk.comDVD Town: www.dvdtown.comDisney Channel: www.Disney.go.comESPN: www.espn.comFilm Review: http://filmreview.com524 " BIBLIOGRAPHYFox Broadcasting: www.fox.comFox Sports Net: www.foxsports.comHome Box Office: www.hbo.comInternet Movie Database: www.imdb.comLexis Nexis: lexis-nexis.comLifetime: www.lifetimeTV.comLooksmart: www.dvdlooksmart.comMTV: www.mtv.comMuseum of Broadcast Communications: www.museum.tv/archivesNational Broadcasting Company: www.nbc.comNick at Nite: www.nick-at-nite.comNickelodeon: www.nick.comOxygen Network: www.oxygen.comPop Matters: www.popmatters.comProQuest: www.proquest.umi.comPublic Broadcasting: www.pbs.orgShowtime: www.sho.comTV Land: www.tvland.comTV One Cable Network: www.tv-one.tvTV Party: www.tvparty.comTV Tome: www.tvtome.comTurner Broadcasting: www.tbs.comTurner Network Television: www.tnt.tvUPN: www.upn.comUSA Network: www.usanetwork.comVH1: www.vh1.comWOUB Radio & Television: www.woub.org/tvWarner Bros.Television: www.TheWB.comWriters Guild of America: www.wga.orgAbout the AuthorKathleen Fearn-Banks, a tenured associate professor, joined the fac-ulty of the School of Communications, University of Washington (Seat-tle) in 1990 after more than 25 years in the communications profession.In addition to being a feature writer at the Los Angeles Times and a newswriter, producer, and reporter for a Los Angeles network affiliated tele-vision station, she also headed, for more than 20 years, nationwide pub-licity campaigns for NBC Television Network series, specials, andmovies.She was also vice president of development and public relations forthe Neighbors of Watts, an entertainment industry nonprofit that raisedfunds for day care centers in underprivileged areas of Los Angeles.In addition to her work in academia, Fearn-Banks counsels compa-nies and organizations on crisis prevention and crisis communicationsand helps them develop crisis communications plans.In January 1999,she was elected PR Professional of the Year by the Seattle branch ofthe Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).She is author of Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach pub-lished first in 1996 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., and now inits second edition (2002).A third edition will be published in 2006.Thebook is popular as a business as well as a university text and is used inmore than 50 colleges and universities.She is coeditor, with AnthonyChan, of People to People: An Introduction to Mass Communicationspublished in 1997 by American Heritage Publishing, a division ofForbes, Inc.In 2005, she was editor of a special crisis communications issue ofthe Journal of Promotion Management.She has written several articlesfor Emmy Magazine, the official magazine of the Academy of Television525526 " ABOUT THE AUTHORArts and Sciences, as well as articles for numerous other magazines,journals, and newspapers and several book chapters.She was educated at Wayne State University, UCLA, and the Uni-versity of Southern California.She is a Golden Lifetime member ofDelta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and a member of the Writers Guild ofAmerica.ABOUT THE COVER ARTISTBeverly Thomas has shared her artistic talents as a musician and edu-cator for many years.She received a M.A.in organ performance fromthe University of Michigan, and after teaching music and serving as de-partment head of fine arts and foreign language at Detroit s MumfordHigh School, she retired as principal of the award-winning RenaissanceHigh School, also in Detroit.A lifelong artist for her own relaxation and personal satisfaction, shetraveled from 1988 through 1992 with her husband, African-AmericanEpiscopal Church Bishop Robert Thomas Jr., throughout South Africa.The experience greatly motivated her work as a serious artist.Thomas sexpressive paintings have been exhibited in the United States, Canada,South Africa, and Namibia.She excels in painting on canvas with oilsand acrylics and exciting pastel creations on paper.Her Limited EditionCollection Plate depicting the Isaiah 11:6 scripture trumpeting peacewas introduced during her 1996 Louisville, Kentucky, art exhibition.Portions of all her art sales are donated to her special A.M.E.Churchscholarships funds.Her work has been exhibited in galleries, as well asby several organizations, churches, and universities.She is a GoldenLifetime member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.Amos n Andy was not television s first black cast series; however, it was the firstnational broadcast after families in big cities began purchasing television sets.AlvinChildress (left) played Amos Jones, a taxi driver and an upstanding family man whowas the series narrator.Spencer Williams, Jr.(right) played Andy Brown, a nice guywho loved the women, usually had money but never had a job, and was an easy dupefor the swindles of the con artistry of the Kingfish (played by Tim Moore).The charactershad been played by white actors on the popular radio series, so when televisionbrought real black actors into homes of black viewers, the hilarious show was verypopular.However, discerning viewers and the NAACP were instrumental in gettingthe series cancelled because of its negative stereotypes.Temple Hatton, pictured here as the prosecutor in the 1959 film Epistle from theKoreans, was an aspiring actor with small roles in the 1950s and early 1960s.He hadacted on radio in nonracial roles and had done numerous plays in the legitimate the-atre. I had learned my craft both in college and later, but preparation was notenough, he said.He said that in Hollywood film and television, darker-skinnedactors like Sidney Poitier, Bernie Hamilton, Roy Glenn, and Greg Morris began to getmost of the roles and casting people told him, We never have calls for your type. Hesays, even today, I didn t get turned down on the basis of auditions; it was only mylook.At one time, I was the most interviewed black actor in Hollywood. Hattonbecame a producer for a local Los Angeles television station and was a network cen-sor for nearly 20 years.Ed Sullivan poses with actresses who were stand-ins on the 1965 feature film TheSinging Nun.Some stand-ins and extras, who usually do not speak lines, have made amore consistent income than many actors.Toni Vaz (far right), who was head of theNAACP committee that conceived the Image Award, was stand-in for actress JuanitaMoore.Other actresses (left to right) were stand-ins for Debbie Reynolds, AgnesMoorhead, and Greer Garson.Natalie Cole was a child when she attended the funeral for her father, legendarysinger Nat King Cole, in 1965.The Nat King Cole Show, a musical variety series, ran fora little more than a year, from 1956 to 1957.News coverage was frequent as he wasdying from lung cancer in a Southern California hospital and continued through thewell-attended funeral.Jerry Lewis and other notables are seen in the background.Redd Foxx, as star of Sanford and Son (1972 1977), insisted upon hiring his friends asguest stars.Some were not actors or performers.Foxx knew many of the men in thisphoto from his younger days in the streets of the Watts area of Los Angeles, evenbefore he recorded his famous party albums, when he worked days painting signs andworked nights in clubs.They are listed here by their street names and their realnames.Front row (left to right): Little Beaver (Gayle H [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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