Movies in the age of Obama : the era of post racial and neo-racist cinema

Movies in the age of Obama : the era of post racial and neo-racist cinema / edited by David Garrett Izzo.

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 the...

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Other Authors: Izzo, David Garrett (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland ; London, England : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Series:Ebook Central purchased.
Subjects:
African Americans in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 21st century.
Race in motion pictures.
Racism in motion pictures.
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Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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:
  • "Art hurts. Art urges voyages
  • and it is easier to stay at home" / Blake G. 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 M. D. Fierce
  • Blaxploitation in the age of Obama: Black Dynamite, Django Unchained, racial reasoning, and racial capitalism / Brian E. Butler
  • Between The Butler and Black Dynamite: servility, militancy, and the meaning of blaxploitation / Andrew Grossman
  • Rednecks, racism, and religion: King and 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
  • Invictus: South Africa as a post-racial fantasy in the age of Obama / 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 Grosvenor
  • Reimagining Barack Obama as Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby / Cammie Sublette
  • The present imagines the future. The Hunger Games, race, and social class in Obama's America / Sonya C. Brown
  • Rise of The planet of the people: contradictions and revolution in Rise of the Planet of the Apes / Doug Morris
  • 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 Murguia
  • 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 Britt.

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