White Screens/Black Images

Hollywood From the Dark Side

James Snead (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-16503-8 (ISBN)

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Hollywood's representation of blacks has been consistently misleading, promoting an artificially constructed mythology in place of historical fact. But how, James Snead asks, did black skin on screen develop into a complex code for various types of white supremacist discourse? In these essays, completed shortly before his death in 1989, James Snead offers a thoughtful inquiry into the intricate modes of racial coding in Hollywood cinema from 1915 to 1985. Snead presents three major methods through which the racist ideology within film functions: mythification, in which black images are correlated in a larger sceme of semiotic valuation where the dominant I needs the marginal other in order to function effectively; marking, in which the color black is repeatedly over-determined and redundantly marked, as if to force the viewer to register the image's difference from white; and omission--the repetition of black absence from positions of autonomy and importance. White Screens/Black Images offers an array of film texts, drawn from both classical Hollywood cinema and black independent film culture. Individual chapters analyze Birth of a Nation , King Kong , Shirley Temple in The Littlest Rebel and The Little Colonel , Mae West in I'm No Angel , Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus , Bette Davis in Jezebel , the racism of Disney's Song of the South , and Taxi Driver . Making skillful use of developments in both structuralist and post-structuralist film theory, Snead's work speaks not only to the centrality of race in Hollywood films, but to its centrality in the formation of modern American culture.

James Snead, Colin MacCabe, Cornel West

Chapter 1 Spectatorship and Capture in King Kong: The Guilty Look; Chapter 2 The Kong Sequels; Chapter 3 Birth of a Nation; Chapter 4 Shirley Temple; Chapter 5 Angel, Venus, Jezebel: Race and the Female Star in Three Thirties Films; Chapter 6 Trimming Uncle Remus?€?s Tales: Narrative Revisions in Walt Disney?€?s Song of the South; Chapter 7 Playing the Changes: St. Clair Bourne?€?s In Motion: Amiri Baraka; Chapter 8 Images of Blacks in Black Independent Films: A Brief Survey; Chapter 9 ?€?;Black Independent Film?€?: Britain and America; Chapter 10 Mass Visual Productions;

Erscheinungsdatum	08.03.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-16503-4 / 1138165034
ISBN-13	978-1-138-16503-8 / 9781138165038
Zustand	Neuware