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Author Rocchio, Vincent F. (Vincent Floyd), 1960-

Title Reel racism : confronting Hollywood's construction of Afro-American culture / Vincent F. Rocchio.

Publication Info. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 235 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Thinking through cinema
Thinking through cinema.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221) and index.
Contents 1. Introduction : revisiting racism and cinema -- 2. The birth of a (racist) nation(al) cinema -- 3. The Gods must be crazy (privileged, but crazy) -- 4. Driving Miss Daisy (because she's white and I'm not -- 5. Mississippi (and history) burning -- 6. A world apart (from the world of privilege) -- 7. School daze and the politics of appropriation -- 8. Do the right thing: style as confrontation -- 9. Daughters of the dust and the figurative as mode of resistance -- 10. The great white men of Lambarene and the limits of representation -- Epilogue : racism, representation, and the role of theory.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Summary Analyzes specific films to demonstrate how they participate in the process of racism.
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Subject African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Rocchio, Vincent F. (Vincent Floyd), 1960- Reel racism. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000 0813367107 9780813367101 (DLC) 00043984 (OCoLC)45023211
ISBN 9781429487948 (electronic book)
1429487941 (electronic book)
0813346576
9780813346571
0813367107 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780813367101 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780813346571