Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 373 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780691240220
,
0691240221
Series Statement:
Princeton Paperbacks
Content:
Introduction : what happened in the tunnel and other open American secrets --Ch. 1.The "agony" of spectatorship at biograph --Ch. 2.The mixed birth of "great white" masculinity and the classical spectator --Ch. 3."The un-doable stories," the "usual answers," and other "epidermic drama[s]" : coming to terms with the production code --Ch. 4.Picturizing race : on visibility, racial knowledge, and cinematic belief --Ch. 5.Out of the plantation and into the suburbs : sensational extremes in the late 1950s --Ch. 6.Guess who's coming to dinner with Eldridge Cleaver and the Supreme Court, or reforming popular racial memory with Hepburn and Tracy.
Content:
"Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. From the first interracial screen kiss of 1903, through the Production Code's nearly thirty-year ban on depictions of "miscegenation," to the contemplation of mixed marriage in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), this book demonstrates a long, popular, yet underexamined record of cultural fantasy at the movies. With ambitious new readings of well-known films like D.W. Griffith's 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation and of key forgotten films and censorship documents, Susan Courtney argues that dominant fantasies of miscegenation have had a profound impact on the form and content of American cinema. What does it mean, Courtney asks, that the image of the black rapist became a virtual cliche, while the sexual exploitation of black women by white men under slavery was perpetually repressed? What has this popular film legacy invited spectators to remember and forget? How has it shaped our conceptions of, and relationships to, race and gender? Richly illustrated with more than 140 images, Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation carefully attends to cinematic detail, revising theories of identity and spectatorship as it expands critical histories of race, sex, and film. Courtney's new research on the Production Code's miscegenation clause also makes an important contribution, inviting us to consider how that clause was routinely interpreted and applied, and with what effects"--Publisher description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-364) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691113041
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Courtney, Susan, 1967- Hollywood fantasies of miscegenation Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, ©2005
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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