New Book Announcement-- Down in Treme: Race, Place, and New Orleans on Television

*Book Announcement:*

*Down in Treme: Race, Place, and New Orleans on Television*
Author: Helen Morgan Parmett
2019 | 216 pages | ISBN 978-3-515-12181-1 (softcover) | ISBN
978-3-515-12182-8 (e-book)

Termed 'Hollywood South,' New Orleans is the site of a burgeoning cultural
economy of film and television production. In the wake of Hurricane
Katrina, this production plays an important role in the city's
rebuilding. *Down
in Treme: Race, Place, and New Orleans on Television* takes the HBO series
*Treme*, filmed on-location in New Orleans, as a case study for exploring
relationships between television production and raced and classed
geographies in the rebuilding of post-Katrina New Orleans. *Treme* demonstrates
how city efforts to attract film and television production collide with the
television industry's desire to create new forms of connection for
increasingly distracted audiences through the production of "authentic"
connections to place. *Down in Treme* explores what is at stake in these
collisions for local culture and struggles over the right to neighborhood
and city space. By putting post-broadcast television studies, critical race
theory, and urban studies into conversation, *Down in Treme* provides a
poignant case study that enjoins scholars to go beyond the text to consider
how media industries and production practices intervene into the
contemporary media city.



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