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The persistence of whiteness : race and contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Daniel Bernardi.

Contributor(s): Bernardi, Daniel, 1964-.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008Description: xxvi, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415774123 (hbk.); 0415774128 (hbk.); 9780415774130 (pbk.); 0415774136 (pbk.); 9780203939741 (ebk.); 0203939743 (ebk.).Subject(s): Minorities in motion pictures | Race in motion pictures | Motion pictures -- United StatesDDC classification: 791.436552
Contents:
Manifest myth-making: Texas history in the movies / Charles Ramirez Berg -- Mapping the beach: beach movies, exploitation film and geographies of whiteness / Josh Stenger -- Boyz, boyz, boyz: new Black cinema and Black masculinity / Keith M. Harris -- Star Wars episodes I-VI: Coyote and the force of white narrative / Gabriel S. Estrada (Nahuatl) -- The whiteness of the rings / Sean Redmond -- Neo abolitionists, colorblind epistemologies and Black politics: the Matrix trilogy / Tani Dianca Sanchez -- Vampires of color and the performance of multicultural whiteness / Dale Hudson -- The naked and the dead: the Jewish male body and masculinity in Sunshine and Enemy at the gates / Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt -- Framing Jennifer Lopez: mobilizing race from the wide shot to the close-up / Priscilla Pena Ovalle -- Guess who's coming to dinner with Eldridge Cleaver & the Supreme Court, or reforming popular racial memory with Hepburn and Tracy / Susan Courtney -- Master-slave sex acts: Mandingo and the race/sex paradox / Celine Parrenas Shimizu -- The tragedy of whiteness and neo-liberalism in Brad Kaaya's 'O'/Othello / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- Romeo must die: interracial romance in action / Gina Marchetti -- The dark side of whiteness: Sweetback and John Dollard's idea of the gains of the lower class negroes / Thomas Cripps -- Black like him: Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple / Lester D. Friedman -- Crossover diva: Whoopi Goldberg and persona politics / Bambi L. Haggins -- Surviving In living color with some White chicks: whiteness in the Wayans' (Black) minds / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-383) and index.

Manifest myth-making: Texas history in the movies / Charles Ramirez Berg -- Mapping the beach: beach movies, exploitation film and geographies of whiteness / Josh Stenger -- Boyz, boyz, boyz: new Black cinema and Black masculinity / Keith M. Harris -- Star Wars episodes I-VI: Coyote and the force of white narrative / Gabriel S. Estrada (Nahuatl) -- The whiteness of the rings / Sean Redmond -- Neo abolitionists, colorblind epistemologies and Black politics: the Matrix trilogy / Tani Dianca Sanchez -- Vampires of color and the performance of multicultural whiteness / Dale Hudson -- The naked and the dead: the Jewish male body and masculinity in Sunshine and Enemy at the gates / Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt -- Framing Jennifer Lopez: mobilizing race from the wide shot to the close-up / Priscilla Pena Ovalle -- Guess who's coming to dinner with Eldridge Cleaver & the Supreme Court, or reforming popular racial memory with Hepburn and Tracy / Susan Courtney -- Master-slave sex acts: Mandingo and the race/sex paradox / Celine Parrenas Shimizu -- The tragedy of whiteness and neo-liberalism in Brad Kaaya's 'O'/Othello / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- Romeo must die: interracial romance in action / Gina Marchetti -- The dark side of whiteness: Sweetback and John Dollard's idea of the gains of the lower class negroes / Thomas Cripps -- Black like him: Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple / Lester D. Friedman -- Crossover diva: Whoopi Goldberg and persona politics / Bambi L. Haggins -- Surviving In living color with some White chicks: whiteness in the Wayans' (Black) minds / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade.