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James A. Snead

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Description:Hollywood's representation of blacks has been consistently misleading, promoting an artificially constructed mythology in place of historical fact. But how, James Snead asks, did black skin on screen develop into a complex code for various types of white supremacist discourse? In these essays, completed shortly before his death in 1989, James Snead offers a thoughtful inquiry into the intricate modes of racial coding in Hollywood cinema from 1915 to 1985. Snead presents three major methods through which the racist ideology within film functions: mythification, in which black images are correlated in a larger sceme of semiotic valuation where the dominant I' needs the marginal other' in order to function effectively; marking, in which the color black is repeatedly over-determined and redundantly marked, as if to force the viewer to register the image's difference from white; and omission--the repetition of black absence from positions of autonomy and importance. "White Screens/Black Images" offers an array of film texts, drawn from both classical Hollywood cinema and black independent film culture. Individual chapters analyze "Birth of a Nation," "King Kong," Shirley Temple in "The Littlest Rebel" and "The Little Colonel," Mae West in "I'm No Angel," Marlene Dietrich in "Blonde Venus," Bette Davis in "Jezebel," the racism of Disney's "Song of the South," and "Taxi Driver." Making skillful use of developments in both structuralist and post-structuralist film theory, Snead's work speaks not only to the centrality of race in Hollywood films, but to its centrality in the formation of modern American culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with White Screens/Black Images. To get started finding White Screens/Black Images, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Hollywood's representation of blacks has been consistently misleading, promoting an artificially constructed mythology in place of historical fact. But how, James Snead asks, did black skin on screen develop into a complex code for various types of white supremacist discourse? In these essays, completed shortly before his death in 1989, James Snead offers a thoughtful inquiry into the intricate modes of racial coding in Hollywood cinema from 1915 to 1985. Snead presents three major methods through which the racist ideology within film functions: mythification, in which black images are correlated in a larger sceme of semiotic valuation where the dominant I' needs the marginal other' in order to function effectively; marking, in which the color black is repeatedly over-determined and redundantly marked, as if to force the viewer to register the image's difference from white; and omission--the repetition of black absence from positions of autonomy and importance. "White Screens/Black Images" offers an array of film texts, drawn from both classical Hollywood cinema and black independent film culture. Individual chapters analyze "Birth of a Nation," "King Kong," Shirley Temple in "The Littlest Rebel" and "The Little Colonel," Mae West in "I'm No Angel," Marlene Dietrich in "Blonde Venus," Bette Davis in "Jezebel," the racism of Disney's "Song of the South," and "Taxi Driver." Making skillful use of developments in both structuralist and post-structuralist film theory, Snead's work speaks not only to the centrality of race in Hollywood films, but to its centrality in the formation of modern American culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with White Screens/Black Images. To get started finding White Screens/Black Images, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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