Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-American Culture
Author:   Vincent Rocchio
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
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9780813367101


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   22 December 2000
Format:   Paperback
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Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture goes beyond reflection theories of the media to examine cinema's active participation in the operations of racism - a complex process rooted in the dynamics of representation. Written for undergraduates and graduate students of film studies and philosophy, Reel Racism focuses on methods and frameworks that analyse films for their production of meaning and how those meanings participate in a broader process of justifying, naturalizing, or legitimizing difference, privilege, and violence based on race. In addition to analysing how the process of racism is articulated in specific films, Reel Racism examines how specific meanings can resist their function of ideological containment, and instead, offer a perspective of a more collective, egalitarian social system- one that transcends the discourse of race.

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Author:   Vincent Rocchio
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Westview Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780813367101


ISBN 10:   0813367107
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   22 December 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Of Racism and Representation -- Introduction: Revisiting Racism and Cinema -- The Birth of a (Racist) Nation(al) Cinema -- Cinema and the Maintenance of Privilege -- The Gods Must Be Crazy (Privileged, but Crazy) -- Driving Miss Daisy (Because She’s White and I’m Not!) -- Mississippi (and History) Burning -- Confronting Racism and Representation -- A World Apart (from the World of Privilege) -- School Daze and the Politics of Appropriation -- Do the Right Thing: Style as Confrontation -- Daughters of the Dust and the Figurative as Mode of Resistance -- The Great White Man of Lambarene and the Limits of Representation -- Epilogue: Racism, Representation, and the Role of Theory

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Vincent F. Rocchio is visiting assistant professor of film studies at Dartmouth College. He has also published articles in The Spectator, Film Quarterly, and The National Catholic Reporter . He is a founding member of the Ekklesia Project and currently lives in Lawrence, MA.

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