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Movies in the age of Obama: the era of post racial and neo-racist cinema
| العنوان: | Movies in the age of Obama: the era of post racial and neo-racist cinema |
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| المساهمون: | Izzo, David Garrett, editor. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | xii, 301 pages ; 24 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | African Americans in motion pictures., Race in motion pictures., Racism in motion pictures., Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 21st century., History. |
| الوصف: | "The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn't let race prevent them for casting their ballots in his favor. In addition to reflecting the changing political climate, Obama's presidency also spurred a cultural shift, notably in music, television, and film. In Movies in the Age of Obama: The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema, David Garrett Izzo presents a varied collection of essays that examine films produced since the 2008 election. The contributors to these essays comment on a number of films in which race and "otherness" are pivotal elements. In addition to discussing such films as Beasts of the Southern Wild, Black Dynamite, The Blind Side, The Butler, Django Unchained, The Help, and Invictus, this collection also includes essays that probe racial elements in The Great Gatsby, The Hunger Games, and The Mist. The volume concludes with several essays that examine the 2013 Academy Award winner for best picture, 12 Years a Slave. Though Obama's election may have been the main impetus for a resurgence of black films, this development is a bit more complicated. Moviemakers have long responded to the changing times, so it is inevitable that the Obama presidency would spark an increase in films that comment, either subtly or overtly, on the current cultural climate." -- Publisher's description. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Introduction / David Garrett Izzo -- Resonance from the past: experience is learned backwards, but must be lived forwards. "I really need a maid!": white womanhood in The help / Kwakiutl L. Dreher -- Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville and Tate Taylor's Jackson:á -- Art hurts: art urges voyages and it is easier to stay at home / Blake Hobby -- If Django and Lincoln could talk: James Baldwin goes to the movies / Robert McParland -- The exceptional n*gger: redefining African-American identity in Django unchained / Rodney Marcel Fierce -- Blaxploitation film: from Black dynamite to Django unchained / Brian E Butler -- Between The butler and Black dynamite: servility, militancy, and the meaning of blaxploitation / Andrew Grossman -- Rednecks, racism & religion; the white, the black & the mist: 'King & Darabont's precarious prophecy of Obama's coming / Victoria McCollum -- The present is an eternal now connecting past and future. "I am Trayvon Martin": Obama and the black male in cinema / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Alisha Saiyed -- South Africa as a metaphor for US racial dreams and fears in Invictus / Sohinee Roy -- "Mama, I think I broke something": thinking about the environment in Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern wild / Irina Negrea -- It's not a wonderful life: the financial crisis on film, and the limits of Hollywood liberalism / Peter C. Grosvenor -- Reimagining Gatsby as black or white in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The great Gatsby / Cammie Sublette -- The present imagines the future. The hunger games, race, and social class / Sonya Brown -- Rise of The planet of the people: resistance and revolution / Doug Morris -- The 2013 Academy Award for best picture: 12 years a slave. "Under the floorboards of this nation": trauma representation, and the stain of history in 12 years a slave / Ed Cameron and Linda Belau -- 162 years after 12 years a slave: a viewing through double-consciousness / Salvador Murgia -- "Revoking the privilege of forgetting": white supremacy Interrogated in 12 years a slave / David M. Jones -- No, you can't: passive protagonists in The blind side, Django unchained, and 12 years a slave / Thomas Garrett. |
| Original Identifier: | (PromptCat)99960582536 ocn881208635 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-4422-4129-9 1-4422-4129-2 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014173100.1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
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