Race on Screen

Christine Grandy is an Associate Professor of Modern British History at the University of Lincoln. Her work examines the social history of Britain and its media in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is the author of Heroes and Happy Endings: Class, Gender, and Nation in Popular Film and Fiction in Interwar Britain (2014).

• List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the historian, critical race theory, and audience racism in twentieth-century Britain; 1. Discovering the audience: anxieties and expertise; 2. Audience wants: film and the pleasures of racism, 1900–1945; 3. 'Expressing their own point of view': audience research on 'race' at the BBC, 1950–1968; 4. 'A traditional form of entertainment': blacking up on post-war screens and colour-blind audiences; 5. 'Too touchy': black audiences and the racialised every day in the black press; 6. 'A sneaking feeling': Institutional silences, racism, and audience research at the BBC and ITV in the 1970s; 7. 'Black magic': racially comfortable viewing and black sitcoms in the 1980s and 1990s; Conclusion of the time; Select Bibliography; Index.