There’s No Place Like HBO? The Political Economics of Race and Sexuality on American Television

This manuscript looks to HBO, in its position as a premium cable industry leader, and the series that it produces, as well as the means of production, the audiences it pursues, the strategies that it employs, the successes and failures of those strategies and the production staff’s influential ability to affect the content of the commodities that it sells to its target audience(s). To accomplish th...