The Hollywood Jim Crow : the racial politics of the movie industry / Maryann Erigha.
The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn't believe that Denzel Washington could "open" a western genre film, provide glaring evide...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2019]
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LM copies 1-3 are part of the Professional Development Lending Library. |
Physical Description: | vii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: race matters in Hollywood
- Representation and racial hierarchy
- Labeling Black unbankable
- Directing on the margins
- Making genre ghettos
- Manufacturing racial stigma
- Remaking cinema
- Conclusion: Hollywood's racial politics.