The specter of Oprah Winfrey: Critical black female spectatorship

The oprah phenomenon

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 35-49

  Stanley, Tarshia L ^a  

^a SPELMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

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References (14)

1. Bell Hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies (New York: Routledge, 1996), 10.
2. Deborah Willis, Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography (New York: New Press, 1994).
3. Patricia A. Turner, Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture (Charlottesville: University of V irginia Press, 1994), 9.
4. See Deborah Willis and David Levering Lewis, A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress (New York: Amistad Press, 2003).
5. Robyn Wiegman, "Black Bodies/American Commodities: Gender, Race, and the Bourgeois Ideal in Contemporary Film", in Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity, and the American Cinema, ed. Lester D. Friedman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), 20.
6. Laurie L. Haag, "Oprah Winfrey: The Construction of Intimacy in the Talk Show Setting", Journal of Popular Culture 26(1993):115-21.
7. Trudier Harris, From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982), 1-12.
8. Alan M. Rubin, Paul M. Haridakis, and Keren Eyal, "Viewer Aggression and Attraction to Television Talk Shows", Media Psychology 5, no. 4(2003):331.
9. Haag, "Oprah Winfrey", 112.
10. Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films (New York: Continuum, 1994), 9.
11. Doris Witt, "What (N) ever Happened to Aunt Jemima: Eating Disorders, Fetal Rights, and Black Female Appetite in Contemporary American Culture", in Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture, ed. Kimberly Wallace Sanders (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002), 40.
12. Julie Scelfo, "The Contender: An Oprah Disciple Gets Her Own Show", Newsweek, January 8, 2001, 48.
13. Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism (New York: Routledge, 2004), 42.
14. O magazine Website: http://www.oprah.com/presents/2003/lybl/pres-2003- lybl-main. jhtml?promocode=800.