Research Catalog

Title

Black Hollywood : from butlers to superheroes, the changing role of African American men in the movies / Kimberly Fain.

Author

Fain, Kimberly, 1974-

Publication

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-Clio, Llc, [2015]

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Details

Description

xxi, 251 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Fain examines the dehumanizing depictions of black males in the movies since 1910, analyzing images that were once imposed on black men and are now appropriated and manipulated by them. She discusses the social, historical, and literary evolution of African American male roles in the cinema, and analyzes the various black images presented each decade from blackface, Sambo, and Mandingo stereotypes to archetypal figures such as God, superheroes, and the president.

Subject

• African American men in motion pictures
• Masculinity in motion pictures
• African American actors

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index.

Contents

Introduction: appropriation, exploitation, and agency of black performers in Hollywood -- Black images from Jim Crow era to the McCarthy era of blacklisting. 1910s: whites in blackface and the sexually depraved black Mandingo-The birth of a nation -- 1920s: Oscar Micheaux's response to blackface and D.W. Griffith -- 1930s: the Hays Moral Code and Jim Crow-The emperor Jones and Gone with the wind -- 1940s: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Lincoln "Stepin Fetchit" Perry: black servants in musicals and comedies -- 1950s: McCarthyism and blacklisting: Canada Lee and Paul Robeson -- Black images from the apex of the civil rights era to the age of Barack Obama -- 1960s: token black actors in the civil rights age: Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte -- 1970s: blaxploitation: preachers, pimps, pushers, and players -- 1980s: black comedians rule: in the age of Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor -- 1990s: gangsta rappers transcend music: Ice Cube, Ice-T, DMX, Nas, and 2pac -- 2000s: black icons: control, agency, and self-appropriation: Spike Lee, Tyler Perry and Will Smith -- 2010s: black power Hollywood: In the age of Obama's hope and change -- Conclusion.

Call Number

Sc E 15-1449

ISBN

• 9781440831904 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1440831904 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781440831911 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015007051

OCLC

881400784

Author

Fain, Kimberly, 1974-

Title

Black Hollywood : from butlers to superheroes, the changing role of African American men in the movies / Kimberly Fain.

Publisher

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-Clio, Llc, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-1449