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Black children in Hollywood cinema : cast in shadow
- Title
- Black children in Hollywood cinema : cast in shadow / Debbie Olson.
- Author
- Olson, Debbie C., 1961-
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- xiii, 229 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
- Summary
- This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film. Debbie Olson argues that within the discourse of children's studies and film scholarship in relation to the conception of "the child," there is often little to no distinction among children by race--the "child" is most often discussed as a universal entity, as the embodiment of all things not adult, not (sexually) corrupt. Discussions about children of color among scholars often take place within contexts such as crime, drugs, urbanization, poverty, or lack of education that tend to reinforce historically stereotypical beliefs about African Americans. Olson looks at historical conceptions of childhood within scholarly discourse, the child character in popular film and what space the black child (both African and African American) occupies within that ideal.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-221), filmography (page 221), and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Establishing the discourse of the child -- African American girls in Hollywood cinema -- Boys in black and the urban ghetto child -- Soldier bo(d)y: the transnational circulation of the African (American) savage child image -- The black child star.
- Call Number
- Sc D 17-1133
- ISBN
- 9783319482729
- 3319482726
- LCCN
- 2016962192
- 9783319482729
- OCLC
- 982491479
- Author
- Olson, Debbie C., 1961- author.
- Title
- Black children in Hollywood cinema : cast in shadow / Debbie Olson.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-221), filmography (page 221), and index.
- Other Form:
- 9783319482736 (online)(GyWOH)har170151621
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9783319482729
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 17-1133