White Screens/Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side

ISBN-13: 9780415905749 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 176 str.

James Snead; Cornel West; Colin Maccabe

Opis

In these essays, completed shortly before his death in 1989, James Snead offers a thoughtful inquiry into the intricate modes of racial coding in Hollywood cinema from 1915 to 1985.

Recenzje

"...exciting contributions to the study of film in general and to issues of race and culture in particular." -- Yale Film News

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

James Snead, Colin MacCabe, Cornel West