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03364aam a2200397 i 4500 001 BC5AC95E08B011E8A8C4D83297128E48 003 SILO 005 20180203010326 008 151214t20162016msu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015048409 020 $a 1496807049 020 $a 9781496807045 035 $a (OCoLC)930257157 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c STF $d DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d COO $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1998.3.P4575 $b F86 2016 082 00 $a 791.4302/8092 $2 23 084 $a SOC001000 $a PER004030 $a SOC001000 $2 bisacsh 245 00 $a From Madea to media mogul : $b theorizing Tyler Perry / $c edited by TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Samantha N. Sheppard, and Karen M. Bowdre ; foreword by Eric Pierson. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2016] 300 $a xxxiv, 255 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "For over a decade Tyler Perry has been a lightning rod for both criticism and praise. To some he is most widely known for his drag performances as Madea, a self-proclaimed "mad black woman, " not afraid to brandish a gun or a scalding pot of grits. But to others who watch the film industry, he is the businessman who by age thirty-six had sold more than $100 million in tickets, $30 million in videos, $20 million in merchandise, and was producing 300 projects each year viewed by 35,000 every week. Is the commercially successful African American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, and producer "malt liquor for the masses, " an "embarrassment to the race, " or is he a genius who has directed the most culturally significant American melodramas since Douglas Sirk? Are his films and television shows even melodramas, or are they conservative Christian diatribes, cheeky camp, or social satires? Do Perry's flattened narratives and character tropes irresponsibly collapse important social discourses into one-dimensional tales that affirm the notion of a "post-racial" society? This volume makes the argument that Tyler Perry must be understood as a figure at the nexus of converging factors, cultural events, and historical traditions. The essays challenge value-judgment criticism and offer new insights on the industrial and formal qualities of Perry's work"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Perry, Tyler $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE $x Media Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a PERFORMING ARTS $x History & Criticism. $x History & Criticism. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE $x African American Studies. $x African American Studies. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Perry, Tyler. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01584543 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 700 1 $a Russworm, TreaAndrea M., $e editor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015072112 700 1 $a Sheppard, Samantha N., $e editor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015072115 700 1 $a Bowdre, Karen M., $e editor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015072118 776 08 $i Online version: $t From Madea to media mogul. $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2016 $z 9781496807052 $w (DLC) 2015049985 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214011956.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BC5AC95E08B011E8A8C4D83297128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search