The Persistence of Whiteness Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema 1st Edition by Danie Bernardi ISBN 978-0415774123 0415774128

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ISBN 10:  0415774128

ISBN 13: 978-0415774123

Author: Danie Bernardi

The Persistence of Whiteness investigates the representation and narration of race in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Ideologies of class, ethnicity, gender, nation and sexuality are central concerns as are the growth of the business of filmmaking. Focusing on representations of Black, Asian, Jewish, Latina/o and Native Americans identities, this collection also shows how whiteness is a fact everywhere in contemporary Hollywood cinema, crossing audiences, authors, genres, studios and styles.

Bringing together essays from respected film scholars, the collection covers a wide range of important films, including Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Color Purple, Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings. Essays also consider genres from the western to blaxploitation and new black cinema; provocative filmmakers such as Melvin Van Peebles and Steven Spielberg and stars including Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Lopez.

Daniel Bernardi provides an in-depth introduction, comprehensive bibliography and a helpful glossary of terms, thus providing students with an accessible and topical collection on race and ethnicity in contemporary cinema.

Table of contents: 

PART I

Generic history

1 Manifest myth-making: Texas history in the movies

CHARLES RAMÍREZ BERG

2 Mapping the beach: beach movies, exploitation film and geographies of whiteness

JOSH STENGER

3 Boyz, boyz, boyz: New Black Cinema and black masculinity

KEITH M. HARRIS

PART II

Anthropomorphism

4 Star Wars episodes I-VI: Coyote and the force of white narrative

GABRIEL S. ESTRADA (NAHUATL)

5 The whiteness of the Rings

SEAN REDMOND

6 Neo-abolitionists, colorblind epistemologies and black politics: the Matrix trilogy

TANI DIANCA SANCHEZ

PART III

Blood and bodies

7 Vampires of color and the performance of multicultural whiteness

DALE HUDSON

8 The naked and the dead: the Jewish male body and masculinity in Sunshine and Enemy at the Gates

PETER LEHMAN AND SUSAN HUNT

9 Framing Jennifer Lopez: mobilizing race from the wide shot to the close-up

PRISCILLA PEÑA OVALLE

PART IV

Desire to desire

10 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner with Eldridge Cleaver and the Supreme Court, or reforming popular racial memory with Hepburn and Tracy

SUSAN COURTNEY

11 Master-slave sex acts: Mandingo and the race/sex paradox

CELINE PARREÑAS SHIMIZU

12 The tragedy of whiteness and neoliberalism in Brad Kaaya’s O/Othello

DEBORAH ELIZABETH WHALEY

13 Romeo Must Die: interracial romance in action

GINA MARCHETTI

PART V

Provocateurs

14 The dark side of whiteness: Sweetback and John Dollard’s idea of “the gains of the lower-class negroes”

THOMAS CRIPPS

15 Black like him: Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple

LESTER D. FRIEDMAN

16 Crossover diva: Whoopi Goldberg and persona politics

BAMBI L. HAGGINS

17 Surviving In Living Color with some White Chicks: whiteness in the Wayans’ (black) minds

BERETTA E. SMITH-SHOMADE

Glossary of terms

Select bibliography

COMPILED BY YOUNG EUN CHAE

Index

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