Visible and Invisible Whiteness: American White Supremacy Through the Cinematic Lens

ISBN-13: 9783319767765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 220 str.

Alice Mikal Craven

Opis

Visible and Invisible Whiteness examines the complicity between Classical Hollywood narratives or genres and representations of white supremacy in the cinema.

Spis treści

1. Visible and Invisible Whiteness: An Introduction

2. Looking at American White Supremacy “Through a Glass Darkly”: James Baldwin on Birth of a Nation

3. “A Monstrous Wrong”: James Agee and the Miraculous Birth of a Nation

4. “The Colored Angle”: Contending Visions of Imitation of Life 

5. Having Forsaken Hollywood: Samuel Fuller’s “art house” White Dog

6. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Western” Whity 

7. Cream Rises to the Top: Jean Renoir’s The Southerner

8. Invisible Whiteness mis-en-abyme: J’irai cracher sur vos tombes 

9. Rachid Bouchareb’s Two Men in Town and his American Trilogy: Cultural Transpositions

10. Conclusion: Cinema, Our Dark Mirror

O autorze

Alice Mikal Craven is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of Film Studies at The American University of Paris, France. In addition to publications on selected authors and filmmakers featured in this volume, she is co-editor of Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21^st Century (Palgrave 2011) and Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary (2014), which received a 2015 Outstanding Academic Title award from Choice magazine. She has been invited to give public interventions in Paris on films such as Selma and Dear White People, and on the Black American expatriate community’s perspective on the Franco-Algerian war.