Frank B Wilderson

Red, White & Black

Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows how cinema's late 20th and 21st century political narratives of the social and political terrain are symptomatic of America's foundational, triangluated, and unresolved antagonisms: the white demand for expansion; the red (Indian) demand for return

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346920
• ISBN-10: 0822346923
• Artikelnr.: 30212534

Autorenporträt

Frank B. Wilderson III

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Unspeakable Ethics 1
I. The Structure of Antagonisms
1. The Ruse of Analogy 35
2. The Narcissistic Slave 54
II. Antwone Fisher and Bush Mama
3. Fishing for Antwone 95
4. Cinematic Unrest: Bush Mama and the Black Liberation Army 117
III. Skins
5. Absurd Mobility 149
6. The Ethics of Sovereignty 162
7. Excess Slack 189
8. The Pleasures of Parity 200
9. "Savage" Negrophobia 221
IV. Monster's Ball
10. A Crisis in the Commons 247
11. Half-White Healing 285
12. Make Me Feel Good 317
Epilogue 237
Notes 343
References 365
Index 375