Episode 22: Bridgerton - About More Than Just C*m?

2022-02-05

Attention ladies and gentleman of the ton, Media Literate is back for the new social season with romance scholar and absolute legend Jackie Johnson, who joins Kim and Laura for a chat about the racial politics of Bridgerton (2020-). What does it mean to be "race-blind?" And how do the implications of a story change when adapting a book to film with actors of color? Some cool sources for further inquiry: Aymar Jean Christian, Open TV: Innovation beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web ...

Attention ladies and gentleman of the ton, Media Literate is back for the new social season with romance scholar and absolute legend Jackie Johnson, who joins Kim and Laura for a chat about the racial politics of Bridgerton (2020-). What does it mean to be "race-blind?" And how do the implications of a story change when adapting a book to film with actors of color?

Some cool sources for further inquiry:

Aymar Jean Christian, Open TV: Innovation beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/9781479814909/html

Jayashree Kamblé, Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mUBvBAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=jayashree+kamble&ots=8QxOGBUBwZ&sig=seFvWyylkW95zs233pJygEVo1bI#v=onepage&q&f=false

Sarah Brouillette, “Romance Work”: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/722834/pdf?casa_token=LzDajTFXir0AAAAA:gCEFVrR_sw73KQdcZFQGUzDnDh-QanC9pXXqdEP705hjnHoZq36X0skrqgDGEzhplOV0pw1D7Q

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