Visible and Invisible Whiteness American White Supremacy through the Cinematic Lens /

• Main Author: Craven, Alice Mikal (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-United States.; United States-Study and teaching.; African Americans.; Motion pictures-European influences.; America-Literatures.; Motion pictures-History.; American Cinema and TV.; American Culture.; African American Culture.; European Cinema and TV.; North American Literature.; Film History.

Visible and Invisible Whiteness examines the complicity between Classical Hollywood narratives or genres and representations of white supremacy in the cinema. Close readings of D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation by James Agee and James Baldwin explore these authors' perspectives on the...