Lasting Images

Datecirca 1985

AbstractKCA60; Lasting Images: A World of Difference; the Media as a Mirror or Lens; the Black woman as mammy stereotype; during the 1950s some musicians were promoted but television executives ran into some resistance; 1970s returned to degrading caricatures; then mixed families with Black child took on life of its own; The Cosby Show is said to be a new model for shows; television can be an educator about the unknown like the Arabs, one high school teacher says, by way of example; sample segments are shown, most of which are negative and narrow; Hispanics are shown, as well, with segments but are both leaders and criminals; Asian actors and their stories are the most troublesome; Rambo and Year of the Dragon do not help the social situations; successful satire is seen by some to be prejudicial when it comes to race; advertisers seem to have learned that appealing to aspirations of minorities is a more successful strategy than using negative stereotypes;

OtherCredits: Written and Produced by Hamilton Fisher; Directed by Bill Lowell; Associate Producer: Debra Shapiro; Research: Alia Arasoughly, Robert Levine, Patricia LaVigne, Evelyn Shakir; Photography: David Skillicorn, Bill Hartigan, Douglas Miller, Rodney Grace, Bob Oliver, John Baynard, Howie Rouse; Sound Ellen Boyce, Howie Rouse, Gretchen Soehner, Kevin McSheffrey; Editing: Geoffrey Sullivan, Marcia Tankersley, Lisa Borge, Dave Teixeira; Post Production: Doug DeVitt, George Ellard; Floor Directors: Scott Philbrick, Kif Williams, Jane Cartier; Graphics: Jeff Boortz; Electronic Graphics: Frank Firnschild; Texaco Star Theatre courtesy of NBC, The Untouchables and Webster Courtesy Paramount Pictures, N.Y.P.D. Courtesy Worldvision Enterprises, Inc. Flip Wilson Courtesy Republic Pictures Corp.; Special Thanks to Anya Illot, Dr. Alvin Pouissant, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Roger Apple, Needham Cinema, Boston India Council, Museum of Modern Mythology, Campbell Soup Company, Samuel J. Chisholm, Mingo-Jones Advertising, Proctor and Gamble, Tandem Productions, Michael Mann Productions; Program Administrator: Joy McGugan; V.P. of Programming & Public Affairs: Paul LaCamera