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Screen Saviors
eBook - Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness
ISBN/EAN: 9781461642862
Umbreit-Nr.: 2217953
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 272 S.
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 21.01.2003
Auflage: 1/2003
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Screen Saviors studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood moviesby white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another color.
This collaboration by a sociologist and a film critic, using the new perspective of critical "white studies," offers a bold and sweeping critique of almost a century's worth of American film, fromBirth of Nation (1915) throughBlack Hawk Down (2001).Screen Saviors studies the way in which the social relations that we call "race" are fictionalized and pictured in the movies. It argues that films are part of broader projects that lead us to ignore or deny the nature of the racial divide in which Americans live. Even as the images of racial and ethnic minorities change across the twentieth century, Hollywood keeps portraying the ideal white American self as good-looking, powerful, brave, cordial, kind, firm, and generous: a natural-born leader worthy of the loyalty of those of another color.
The book invites readers to conduct their own analyses of films by showing how this can be done in over 50 Hollywood movies. Among these are some films about the Civil WarBirth of a Nation ,Gone with the Wind, andGlory; some about white messiahs who rescue people of another colorStargate,To Kill a Mockingbird,Mississippi Burning,Three Kings, andThe Matrix; the three versions ofMutiny on the Bounty (1935, 1962, and 1984) and interracial romanceGuess Who's Coming to Dinner. Forty years of Hollywood fantasies of interracial harmony, fromThe Defiant Ones andIn the Heat of the Night through theLethal Weapon series andMen in Black are examined.
This work in the sociology of knowledge and cultural studies relates the movies of Hollywood to the large political agendas on race relation in the United States.Screen Saviors appeals to the general reader interested in the movies or in race and ethnicity as well as to students of com
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Screen Saviors studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood moviesby white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another color.
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- Screen Saviors studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood movies¿by white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another color. This collaboration by a sociologist and a film critic, using the new perspective of critical "white studies," offers a bold and sweeping critique of almost a century's worth of American film, from Birth of Nation (1915) through Black Hawk Down (2001). Screen Saviors studies the way in which the social relations that we call "race" are fictionalized and pictured in the movies . It argues that films are part of broader projects that lead us to ignore or deny the nature of the racial divide in which Americans live. Even as the images of racial and ethnic minorities change across the twentieth century, Hollywood keeps portraying the ideal white American self as good-looking, powerful, brave, cordial, kind, firm, and generous: a natural-born leader worthy of the loyalty of those of another color.
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Hernán Vera is professor of sociology at the University of Florida and an author of several books on race relations.
Andrew M. Gordon is associate professor of English at the University of Florida and a film critic.
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Hernán Vera is professor of sociology at the University of Florida and an author of several books on race relations.