Revolution Televised is a brilliant, engaging, often eloquent book that offers a completely fresh take on black television in the seventies. Spurning the simplicity of ‘negative’ versus ‘positive’ images, it instead explores the complex forms of agency and resistance that black actors exercised, as well as probing the social circumstances and artistic options available to its creators. This is unquestionably the finest treatment of its subject that I have read, and will spark intense debate about the critical issues it raises for some time to come. A marvelous, poetic read!