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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Craven, Alice Mikal (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Looking at American White Supremacy "Through a Glass Darkly": Baldwin's Critique of Birth of a Nation
• 2. "But Now I See": James Agee on Birth of a Nation
• 3. Contending Visions: Imitation of Life According to John M. Stahl and Douglas Sirk
• 4. Forsaking Hollywood: Samuel Fuller's "art house" White Dog
• 5. A Western by Any Other Name: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Whity
• 6. Cream Rises to the Top: Jean Renoir and William Faulkner's The Southerner
• 7. Supremacy in Black Face: the Boris Vian-Michel Gast Controversy
• 8. Rachid Bouchareb's Comparative Take on Supremacy
• 9. A Post-Racial Imaginary and the Structures of Cinema.