The Myth of Colorblindness Race and Ethnicity in American Cinema /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Turner, Sarah E. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Nilsen, Sarah (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-United States.; United States-Study and teaching.; Ethnicity.; Motion pictures.; Popular Culture.; Culture.; Gender.; American Cinema and TV.; American Culture.; Ethnicity Studies.; Film/TV Industry.; Popular Culture .; Culture and Gender.

This book explores representations of race and ethnicity in contemporary cinema and the ways in which these depictions all too often promulgate an important racial ideology: the myth of colorblindness. Colorblindness is a discursive framework employed by mainstream, neoliberal media to celebrate a m...