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Visible and invisible whiteness : American white supremacy through the cinematic lens
- Title
- Visible and invisible whiteness : American white supremacy through the cinematic lens / Alice Mikal Craven.
- Author
- Craven, Alice Mikal
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- xiv, 220 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
- Summary
- "Visible and invisible whiteness examines the complicity between Classical Hollywood narratives or genres and representations of white supremacy in the cinema. Close readings of D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation' by James Agee and James Baldwin explore these authors' perspectives on the American mythologies which ground Griffith's film. The intersectionality of Bordwel's theories on Classical Hollywood Narrative versus Art Cinema and Richard Dyer's seminal work on whiteness forms the theoretical base for the book. Featured films are those which have been undervalued or banned due to their hybrid natures with respect to Hollywood and Art Cinema techniques, such as Samuel Fuller's 'White Dog' and Jean Renoir's 'The Southerner'. The book offers comparative analyses of American studio-based directors as well as European and European émigrés directors. It provides insight for readers concerned about the re-emergence of white supremacist tensions in contemporary America."--Back cover.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Visible and invisible whiteness: an introduction -- Looking at American white supremacy "through a glass darkly": James Baldwin on Birth of a nation -- "A monstrous wrong": James Agee and the miraculous Birth of a nation -- "The colored angle": contending visions of Imitation of life -- Having forsaken Hollywood: Samuel Fuller's "art house" White dog -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "western," Whity -- Cream rises to the top: Jean Renoir's The southerner -- Invisible whiteness mise en abyme: J'irai cracher sur vos tombes.
- Call Number
- Sc D 19-372
- ISBN
- 3319767763
- 9783319767765
- 9783319767772 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018935695
- OCLC
- 1022076131
- Author
- Craven, Alice Mikal, author.
- Title
- Visible and invisible whiteness : American white supremacy through the cinematic lens / Alice Mikal Craven.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 19-372