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The birth of whiteness : race and the emergence of U.S. cinema
- Title
- The birth of whiteness : race and the emergence of U.S. cinema / edited by Daniel Bernardi.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1996.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bernardi, Daniel, 1964-
- Description
- viii, 378 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-362) and index.
- Contents
- The re-birth of the aestetic in cinema / Clyde Taylor -- The making of The birth of a race : the emerging politics of identity in silent movies / Thomas Cripps -- Identity and betrayal : The symbol of the unconquered and Oscar Micheaux's "biographical legend" / Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence -- The accepted idea displaced : stereotype and Sessue Hayakawa / Donald Kirihara -- The voice of whiteness : D.W. Griffith's Biograph films / Daniel Bernardi -- The family on the land : race and nationhood in silent westerns / Virginia Wright Wexman -- Race and the reception of Jack Johnson fight films / Dan Streible -- Birth of the Southwest : social protest, tourism, and D.W. Griffith's Ramona / Chon A. Noriega -- The undoing of the other woman : Madame Butterfly in the discourse of American orientalism / Nick Browne -- Tragic and transcendent love in The forbidden city / Gina Marchetti -- The revenge of Rain-in-the-Face? or, Custers and Indians on the silent screen / Roberta E. Pearson -- Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North : the politics of taxidermy and romantic ethnography / Fatimah Tobing Rony -- Touring the Orient with Lafcadio Hearn and Cecil B. DeMille : highbrow versus lowbrow in a consumer culture / Sumiko Higashi.
- Call Number
- Sc E 96-796
- ISBN
- 0813522757 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813522765 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0813522773 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95052727
- OCLC
- 33969754
- Title
- The birth of whiteness : race and the emergence of U.S. cinema / edited by Daniel Bernardi.
- Imprint
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1996.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-362) and index.
- Added Author
- Bernardi, Daniel, 1964-
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 96-796MFL 96-13882