Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race

Name: Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race
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ISBN: 9780691113050

ISBN-10: 069111305X

ISBN-13: 9780691113050

Edition: 2005

Authors: Susan Courtney

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Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenationanalyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. From the first interracial screen kiss of 1903, through the Production Code's nearly thirty-year ban on depictions of "miscegenation," to the contemplation of mixed marriage inGuess Who's Coming to Dinner(1967), this book demonstrates a long, popular, yet underexamined record of cultural fantasy at the movies. With ambitious new readings of well-known films like D.W. Griffith's 1915 epicThe Birth of a Nationand of key forgotten films and censorship documents, Susan Courtney argues that dominant fantasies of miscegenation have had a profound impact on the form and…

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/5/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.02" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction : what happened in the tunnel and other open American secrets



The "agony" of spectatorship at biograph



The mixed birth of "great white" masculinity and the classical spectator



"The un-doable stories," the "usual answers," and other "epidermic drama[s]" : coming to terms with the production code



Picturizing race : on visibility, racial knowledge, and cinematic belief



Out of the plantation and into the suburbs : sensational extremes in the late 1950s



Guess who's coming to dinner with Eldridge Cleaver and the Supreme Court, or reforming popular racial memory with Hepburn and Tracy