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

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