Dangerous Fictions: Race, History, and King

2010/03/07 by J. Osborn Fuller · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Crime and Detective Fiction Studies #Gothic Literature and Media Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.1353/cj.0.0192

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Abstract

This essay analyzes discourses around the controversial docudrama King (NBC, 1978), which portrayed Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement. A look at mainstream and black press coverage of the controversies surrounding King shows that the meaning of "history" and perceptions of why it mattered differed greatly along racial lines.

Cited by

• Coretta Scott King [wikipedia]

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