The persistence of whiteness : race and contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Daniel Bernardi.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Manifest myth-making: Texas history in the movies / Charles Ramirez Berg
- Mapping the beach: beach movies, exploitation film and geographies of whiteness / Josh Stenger
- Boyz, boyz, boyz: new Black cinema and Black masculinity / Keith M. Harris
- Star Wars episodes I-VI: Coyote and the force of white narrative / Gabriel S. Estrada (Nahuatl)
- The whiteness of the rings / Sean Redmond
- Neo abolitionists, colorblind epistemologies and Black politics: the Matrix trilogy / Tani Dianca Sanchez
- Vampires of color and the performance of multicultural whiteness / Dale Hudson
- The naked and the dead: the Jewish male body and masculinity in Sunshine and Enemy at the gates / Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt
- Framing Jennifer Lopez: mobilizing race from the wide shot to the close-up / Priscilla Pena Ovalle
- Guess who's coming to dinner with Eldridge Cleaver & the Supreme Court, or reforming popular racial memory with Hepburn and Tracy / Susan Courtney
- Master-slave sex acts: Mandingo and the race/sex paradox / Celine Parrenas Shimizu
- The tragedy of whiteness and neo-liberalism in Brad Kaaya's 'O'/Othello / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
- Romeo must die: interracial romance in action / Gina Marchetti
- The dark side of whiteness: Sweetback and John Dollard's idea of the gains of the lower class negroes / Thomas Cripps
- Black like him: Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple / Lester D. Friedman
- Crossover diva: Whoopi Goldberg and persona politics / Bambi L. Haggins
- Surviving In living color with some White chicks: whiteness in the Wayans' (Black) minds / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade.