176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Hollywood's representation of blacks has been consistently misleading, promoting an artificially constructed mythology in place of historical fact. But how, James Snead asks, did black skin on screen develop into a complex code for various types of white supremacist discourse? In these essays, completed shortly before his death in 1989, James Snead offers a thoughtful inquiry into the intricate... Read more
Chapter 1 Spectatorship and Capture in King Kong: The Guilty Look; Chapter 2 The Kong Sequels; Chapter 3 Birth of a Nation; Chapter 4 Shirley Temple; Chapter 5 Angel, Venus, Jezebel: Race and the Female Star in Three Thirties Films; Chapter 6 Trimming Uncle Remus’s Tales: Narrative Revisions in Walt Disney’s Song of the South; Chapter 7 Playing the Changes: St. Clair Bourne’s In Motion: Amiri Baraka; Chapter 8 Images of Blacks in Black Independent Films: A Brief Survey; Chapter 9 “;Black Independent Film”: Britain and America; Chapter 10 Mass Visual Productions;
Biography
James Snead, Colin MacCabe, Cornel West
"...exciting contributions to the study of film in general and to issues of race and culture in particular." -- Yale Film News
