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From Madea to Media Mogul Theorizing Tyler Perry = Theorizing Tyler Perry by TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Samantha N. Sheppard, and Karen M. Bowdre; [foreword by Eric Pierson] is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Contributions by Leah Aldridge, Karen M. Bowdre, Aymar Jean Christian, Keith Corson, Rachel Jessica Daniel, Artel Great, Brandeise Monk-Payton, Miriam J. Petty, Eric Pierson, Paul N. Reinsch, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Rashida Z. Shaw, Samantha N. Sheppard, Ben Raphael Sher, and Khadijah Costley White<br><br>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.<br><br>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,

Author

TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Samantha N. Sheppard, and Karen M. Bowdre; [foreword by Eric Pierson]

Publisher

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496807076

Subjects

Science, History, Sports