The persistence of whiteness : race and contemporary Hollywood cinema /

The persistence of whiteness : race and contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Daniel Bernardi. - London ; New York : Routledge, (c)2008. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 390 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

1. Manifest myth-making : Texas history in the movies / 2. Mapping the beach : beach movies, exploitation film and geographies of whiteness / 3. Boyz, boyz, boyz : new black cinema and black masculinity / 4. Star wars episodes I-VI : coyote and the force of white narrative / 5. The whiteness of the Rings / 6. Neo-abolitionists, colorblind epistemologies and black politics : the Matrix trilogy / 7. Vampires of color and the performance of multicultural whiteness / 8. The naked and the dead : the Jewish male body and masculinity in Sunshine and Enemy at the gates / 9. Framing Jennifer Lopez : mobilizing race from the wide shot to the close-up / 10. Guess who's coming to dinner with Eldridge Cleaver and the Supreme Court, or reforming popular racial memory with Hepburn and Tracy / 11. Master-slave sex acts : Mandingo and the race/sex paradox / 12. The tragedy of whiteness and neo-liberalism in Brad Kaaya's O/Othello / 13. Romeo must die : interracial romance in action / 14. The dark side of whiteness : Sweetback and John Dollard's idea of 'the gains of the lower-class negroes' / 15. Black like him : Steven Spielberg's The color purple / 16. Crossover diva : Whoopi Goldberg and persona politics / 17. Surviving In living color with some White chicks : whiteness in the Wayans' (black) minds / Charles Ramírez Berg -- Josh Stenger -- Keith M. Harris -- Gabriel S. Estrada (Nahuatl) -- Sean Redmond -- Tani Dianca Sanchez -- Dale Hudson -- Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt -- Priscilla Peña Ovalle -- Susan Courtney -- Celine Parreñas Shimizu -- Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- Gina Marchetti -- Thomas Cripps -- Lester D. Friedman -- Bambi L. Haggins -- Beretta E. Smith-Shomade.

"The Persistence of Whiteness investigates the representation and narration of race in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Ideologies of class, ethnicity, gender, nation and sexuality are central concerns as are the growth of the business of filmmaking. Focusing on representations of Black, Asian, Jewish, Latina/o and Native American identities, this collection also shows how whiteness is a fact everywhere in contemporary Hollywood cinema, crossing audiences, authors, genres, studios and styles."--Jacket.




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Minorities in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--United States.


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