Vincent F. Rocchio

Reel Racism (eBook, PDF)

Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-american Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This study looks 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, this work focuses on methods and frameworks that analyze 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 analyzing how the process of racism is articulated in specific films, it 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429966293
• Artikelnr.: 56843018

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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