1st Edition
Reel Racism Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-american Culture
By Vincent F. Rocchio
Copyright 2000
250 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture goes beyond reflection theories of the media to examine cinema's active participation in the operations of racism --a complex process rooted in the dynamics of representation. Written for undergraduates and graduate students of film studies and philosophy, Reel Racism focuses on methods and frameworks that analyze films for... Read more
Of Racism and Representation -- Introduction: Revisiting Racism and Cinema -- The Birth of a (Racist) Nation(al) Cinema -- Cinema and the Maintenance of Privilege -- The Gods Must Be Crazy (Privileged, but Crazy) -- Driving Miss Daisy (Because She’s White and I’m Not!) -- Mississippi (and History) Burning -- Confronting Racism and Representation -- A World Apart (from the World of Privilege) -- School Daze and the Politics of Appropriation -- Do the Right Thing: Style as Confrontation -- Daughters of the Dust and the Figurative as Mode of Resistance -- The Great White Man of Lambarene and the Limits of Representation -- Epilogue: Racism, Representation, and the Role of Theory
Biography
Vincent F. Rocchio
