This talk examines\u00a0the persistent reluctance of producers and shapers of\u00a0screen culture to regulate images of ‘blackness’ for British audiences in a period of\u00a0increased immigration from 1948 to\u00a01978. Producers and regulators at a variety of organisations tasked with shaping screen culture in the period, including the BBC, ITV, the BBFC, and various film studios, were\u00a0newly invested in imagining the\u00a0responses of British audiences in the postwar period. These organisations, alongside NGOs such as the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association,\u00a0constructed audiences as\u00a0impressionable and fragile when it came to sexuality, class conflict, and politics on\u00a0screen, but largely unaffected by negative representations of black and minority\u00a0ethnic subjects.\u00a0This talk\u00a0consequently addresses shifting official and unofficial\u00a0perceptions of what was acceptable or ‘politically correct’\u00a0when it\u00a0came to images of race on screen, and the role of a variety of organisations and\u00a0audiences, including black and minority ethnic viewers, in imagining postwar British audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This talk examines\u00a0the persistent reluctance of producers and shapers of\u00a0screen culture to regulate images of ‘blackness’ for British audiences in a period of\u00a0increased immigration from 1948 to\u00a01978. Producers and regulators at a variety of organisations tasked with shaping screen culture in the period, including the BBC, ITV, the BBFC, and various film studios, were\u00a0newly invested in imagining the\u00a0responses of British audiences in the postwar period. These organisations, alongside NGOs such as the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association,\u00a0constructed audiences as\u00a0impressionable and fragile when it came to sexuality, class conflict, and politics on\u00a0screen, but largely unaffected by negative representations of black and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_events","category-whats_on"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crab.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ewerwerwer.png?fit=804%2C452&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bhxC-8z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":483,"url":"https:\/\/crab.port.ac.uk\/?p=483","url_meta":{"origin":531,"position":0},"title":"Black Panthers in London – talk by Carlus Hudson","author":"CRaB admin","date":"9th January 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Black Panthers are one of the most pivotal organisations in the histories of radicalism and anti-racism in the United States, and their ideas have had an enormous impact on activists who have come after them. 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