Format:
1 online resource (293 pages)
ISBN:
9781442241305
Content:
This collection of essays looks at how films in the last few years have reflected and juxtaposed the ascent of Barack Obama and his administration. The films examined here include The Help, Django Unchained, Lincoln, The Mist, Invictus, Black Dynamite, and The Great Gatsby
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Introduction -- Resonance from the Pas -- Experience Is Learned Backward But Must Be Lived Forward -- "I Really Need a Maid!" White Womanhood in The Help -- Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville and Tate Taylor's Jackson: "Art hurts. Art urges voyages-and it is easier to stay at home." -- If Django and Lincoln Could Talk: James Baldwin Goes to the Movies -- The Exceptional N*gger: Redefining African American Identity in Django Unchained -- Blaxploitation in the Age of Obama: Black Dynamite , Django Unchained , Racial Reasoning, and Racial Capitalism -- Between The Butler and Black Dynamite : Servility, Militancy, and the Meaning of Blaxploitation -- Rednecks, Racism, and Religion: King and Darabont's Precarious Prophecy of Obama's Coming -- The Present Is an Eternal Now Connecting Past and Future -- "I Am Trayvon Martin": Obama and the Black Male in Cinema -- Invictus : South Africa as a Post-racial Fantasy in the Age of Obama -- "Mama, I Think I Broke Something": Thi
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No, You Can' -- Passive Protagonists in The Blind Side , Django Unchained , and 12 Years a Slave -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors
Language:
English
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