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Passing and Posing between Black and White: Calibrating the Color Line in U.S. Cinema
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Abstract Since its inception, U.S. American cinema has grappled with the articulation of racial boundaries. This applies, in the first instance, to featuring mixed-race characters crossing the color line. In a broader sense, however, this also concerns viewing conditions and knowledge configurations. The fac... view more
Since its inception, U.S. American cinema has grappled with the articulation of racial boundaries. This applies, in the first instance, to featuring mixed-race characters crossing the color line. In a broader sense, however, this also concerns viewing conditions and knowledge configurations. The fact that American film engages itself so extensively with the unbalanced relation between black and white is neither coincidental nor trivial to state - it has much more to do with disputing boundaries that pertain to the medium itself. Lisa Gotto examines this constellation along the early history of American film, the cinematic modernism of the late 1950s, and the post-classical cinema of the turn of the millennium.... view less
Keywords
film; racism; cinema; media; culture; cultural history; race; ethnicity; United States of America
Classification
Other Media
Other Fields of Humanities
Free Keywords
Hollywood; America; Media Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
246 p.
Series
Film
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839453377
ISSN
2703-0466
ISBN
978-3-8394-5337-7
Status
Published Version; reviewed