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Black magic : White Hollywood and African American culture

Title
Black magic : White Hollywood and African American culture / Krin Gabbard.
Author
Gabbard, Krin.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004.

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Description
xi, 324 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • African Americans in motion pictures
  • Jazz in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures > United States
  • Motion pictures and music
  • Motion picture music > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-304) and index.
Contents
Black magic, disembodied. Marlon Brando's jazz acting and the obsolescence of blackface ; Borrowing Black masculinity: Dirty Harry finds his gentle side ; Passing tones: The talented Mr. Ripley and Pleasantville -- Serving the white audience. The racial displacements of Ransom and Fargo ; Black angels in America : millennial solutions to the "race problem" -- Unrepresentable subjects. Evidence : Thelonious Monk's challenge to jazz history ; Revenge of the Nerds : representing the White male collector of Black music -- Black magic, inverted. Robert Altman's jazz history lesson ; Spike Lee meets Aaron Copland.
Call Number
Sc E 04-751
ISBN
  • 081353383X (alk. paper)
  • 0813533848 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003020083
OCLC
53215708
Author
Gabbard, Krin.
Title
Black magic : White Hollywood and African American culture / Krin Gabbard.
Imprint
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-304) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 04-751
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