Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness

Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness
Title Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness PDF eBook
Author Daniel Bernardi
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 546
Release 2001
Genre Electronic books
ISBN 9781452904085

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The Persistence of Whiteness

The Persistence of Whiteness
Title The Persistence of Whiteness PDF eBook
Author Daniel Bernardi
Publisher Routledge
Pages 417
Release 2007-09-12
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1135976457

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The Persistence of Whiteness investigates the representation and narration of race in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Ideologies of class, ethnicity, gender, nation and sexuality are central concerns as are the growth of the business of filmmaking. Focusing on representations of Black, Asian, Jewish, Latina/o and Native Americans identities, this collection also shows how whiteness is a fact everywhere in contemporary Hollywood cinema, crossing audiences, authors, genres, studios and styles. Bringing together essays from respected film scholars, the collection covers a wide range of important films, including Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Color Purple, Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings. Essays also consider genres from the western to blaxploitation and new black cinema; provocative filmmakers such as Melvin Van Peebles and Steven Spielberg and stars including Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Lopez. Daniel Bernardi provides an in-depth introduction, comprehensive bibliography and a helpful glossary of terms, thus providing students with an accessible and topical collection on race and ethnicity in contemporary cinema.

Reading Race

Reading Race
Title Reading Race PDF eBook
Author Norman K Denzin
Publisher SAGE
Pages 256
Release 2002-03-29
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780803975453

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In this insightful book, one of America's leading commentators on culture and society turns his gaze upon cinematic race relations, examining the relationship between film, race and culture. Acute, richly illustrated and timely, the book deepens our understanding of the politics of race and the symbolic complexity of segregation and discrimination.

America on Film

America on Film
Title America on Film PDF eBook
Author Harry M. Benshoff
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 472
Release 2011-08-26
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 144435759X

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America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies, 2nd Edition is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema. Provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality Includes over 100 illustrations, glossary of key terms, questions for discussion, and lists for further reading/viewing Includes new case studies of a number of films, including Crash, Brokeback Mountain, and Quinceañera

Hollywood's Hawaii

Hollywood's Hawaii
Title Hollywood's Hawaii PDF eBook
Author Delia Caparoso Konzett
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 268
Release 2017-03
Genre Art
ISBN 0813587468

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Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii and the South Pacific figure prominently in the U.S. national imagination. Hollywood’s Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry’s intense engagement with the Pacific region from 1898 to the present. Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett highlights films that mirror the cultural and political climate of the country over more than a century—from the era of U.S. imperialism on through Jim Crow racial segregation, the attack on Pearl Harbor and WWII, the civil rights movement, the contemporary articulation of consumer and leisure culture, as well as the buildup of the modern military industrial complex. Focusing on important cultural questions pertaining to race, nationhood, and war, Konzett offers a unique view of Hollywood film history produced about the national periphery for mainland U.S. audiences. Hollywood’s Hawaii presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representations in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment.

Black Oscars

Black Oscars
Title Black Oscars PDF eBook
Author Frederick Gooding
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 321
Release 2020-05-24
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1538123738

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A timely exploration of Oscar-nominated Black actors and the complicated legacy of the Academy Awards. In Black Oscars: From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us about African Americans, Frederick W. Gooding Jr. draws on American, African American, and film history to reflect on how the Oscars have recognized Black actors from the award’s inception to the present. Starting in the 1920s, the chapters provide a thorough overview and analysis of Black actors nominated for their Hollywood roles during each decade, with special attention paid to the winners. Historical patterns are scrutinized to reveal racial trends and open the question of whether race relations have truly changed substantively or only superficially over time. Given the Oscars’ presence and popularity, it begs the question of what these awards reflect and reinforce about larger society. In the meticulously-researched Black Oscars, we see how the Academy Awards are an indispensable guide to understanding race in mainstream Hollywood and beyond.

Images of Whiteness

Images of Whiteness
Title Images of Whiteness PDF eBook
Author Clarissa Behar
Publisher BRILL
Pages 246
Release 2019-01-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 184888222X

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This collection examines images of whiteness in literature, film, television, as well as ethnographic studies, and provides preliminary guidance to engage in anti-racist praxis and education.