White Screens/Black Images Hollywood from the Dark Side

Name: White Screens/Black Images Hollywood from the Dark Side
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ISBN: 9780415905749

ISBN-10: 0415905745

ISBN-13: 9780415905749

Edition: 1994

Authors: James Snead, Cornel West

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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 modes of racial coding in Hollywood cinema from 1915 to 1985. Snead presents three major methods through which the racist ideology within film functions: mythification, in which black images are correlated in a larger sceme of semiotic valuation where the dominant ``I' needs the marginal ``other' in…

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List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/5/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.02" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.836



Forewords




Spectatorship and Capture in King Kong: The Guilty Look



The Kong Sequels



Birth of a Nation



Shirley Temple



Angel, Venus, Jezebel: Race and the Female Star in Three Thirties Films



Trimming Uncle Remus's Tales: Narrative Revisions in Walt Disney's Song of the South



Playing the Changes: St. Clair Bourne's In Motion: Amiri Baraka



Images of Blacks in Black Independent Films: A Brief Survey



"Black Independent Film": Britain and America



Mass Visual Productions


Notes