Table of Contents: “…Law -- Jane Rhodes Television, Black Americans and the American Dream -- Herman Gray Laughing Across the Color Barrier -- Norma Miriam Schulman In Living Color The Movie of the Week -- Elayne Rapping Defining Women -- Julie D'Acci The Case of Cagney and Lacey Subversive Sitcoms -- Janet Lee Roseanne as Inspiration for Feminist Resistance Confessions of a Sitcom Junkie -- Sarah Schuyler PART SEVEN: MUSIC VIDEOS AND RAP MUSIC -- CULTURAL CONFLICT AND CONTROL IN THE AGE OF THE IMAGE A Post-Modernist Moment -- John Pettegrew 1980s Commercial Culture and the Founding of MTV Form and Female Authorship in Music Video -- Lisa A Lewis The Effects of Race, Gender and Fandom on Audience Interpretations of Madonna's Music Videos -- Jane D Brown and Laurie Schulze Reconstructions of Nationalist Thought in Black Music and Culture -- Kristal Brent Zook It's My Thang and I'll Swing It the Way That I Feel! …”