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White Savior Film Content, Critics, and Consumption

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ISBN-10: 1306540054

ISBN-13: 9781306540056

Edition: N/A

Authors: Matthew Hughey

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The cinematic trope of the white savior film-think of Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side," Kevin Costner in "Dances with Wolves," or Tom Cruise in "The Last Samurai"--features messianic characters in unfamiliar or hostile settings discovering something about themselves and their culture in the process of saving members of other races from terrible fates.In "The White Savior Film," Matthew Hughey provides a cogent, multipronged analysis of this subgenre of films to investigate the underpinnings of the Hollywood-constructed images of idealized (and often idealistic) white Americans.Hughey considers the production, distribution, and consumption of white savior films to show how the dominant…    
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Book details

List price: $111.41
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2014
Binding: E-Book 
Pages: 231
Language: English

Gregory S. Parks, PhD, JDis an attorney in private practice and co-editor ofCritical Race Realism(The New Press). He lives in Washington, D.C.Matthew W. Hughey, PhDis an assistant professor of sociology at Mississippi State University, where he lives, and is the co-editor ofThe Obamas and a (Post) Racial America.Gregory S. Parks, PhD, JDis an attorney in private practice and co-editor ofCritical Race Realism(The New Press). He lives in Washington, D.C.Matthew W. Hughey, PhDis an assistant professor of sociology at Mississippi State University, where he lives, and is the co-editor ofThe Obamas and a (Post) Racial America.