Description
Marlon Riggs’s Color Adjustment (1992) asks whether the Black experience of American life could ever accurately be represented on TV and stillpromote the American Dream of assimilation and consumerism. How might eitherA Different World (NBC, 1989, “Radio Free Hilton”) orGrown-ish (Freeform, 2018, “Erase Your Social”) exemplify this tension?
Make sure to screen your chosen episode no less than four times. While screening, take careful and specific notes on the visual and aural elements of the program. You will need ample time after you have drafted the paper to review your episode—your arguments may change as you write and come to a deeper understanding of the text.
Each essay should be six (6) pages in length, typed, and double-spaced using a font of no larger than 12-point and no smaller than 11-point Your paper should have a title page with an original title that indicates the central ideas of your argument. The title page should also include the course number, your name.