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Snead presents three major methods through which the racist ideology within film functions: mythification, in which black images are correlated in a larger sceme of semiotic valuation where the dominant I needs the marginal other in order to function effectively; marking, in which the color black is repeatedly over-determined and redundantly marked, as if to force the viewer to register the image's difference from white; and omission--the repetition of black absence from positions of autonomy and importance.       White Screens\/Black Images    offers an array of film texts, drawn from both classical Hollywood cinema and black independent film culture. Individual chapters analyze  Birth of a Nation ,  King Kong , Shirley Temple in  The Littlest Rebel  and  The Little Colonel , Mae West in  I'm No Angel , Marlene Dietrich in  Blonde Venus , Bette Davis in  Jezebel , the racism of Disney's  Song of the   South , and  Taxi Driver . Making skillful use of developments in both structuralist and post-structuralist film theory, Snead's work speaks not only to the centrality of race in Hollywood films, but to its centrality in the formation of modern American culture.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572952080657,"sku":"GOR005046718","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49788806856977,"sku":"GOR013785054","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50350683947281,"sku":"CIN0415905745G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52136032600337,"sku":"NLS9780415905749","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0415905745.jpg?v=1751196967"},{"product_id":"ruins-and-rivals-book-james-e-snead-9780816523979","title":"Ruins and Rivals","description":"Published in cooperation with the\u003cbr\u003eWilliam P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuins are as central\u003c\/b\u003e to the image of the American Southwest as are its mountains and deserts, and antiquity is a key element of modern southwestern heritage. Yet prior to the mid-nineteenth century this rich legacy was largely unknown to the outside world. While military expeditions first brought word of enigmatic relics to the eastern United States, the new intellectual frontier was seized by archaeologists, who used the results of their southwestern explorations to build a foundation for the scientific study of the American past. In \u003ci\u003eRuins and Rivals, \u003c\/i\u003e James Snead helps us understand the historical development of archaeology in the Southwest from the 1890s to the 1920s and its relationship with the popular conception of the region. He examines two major research traditions: expeditions dispatched from the major eastern museums and those supported by archaeological societies based in the Southwest itself. By comparing the projects of New York's American Museum of Natural History with those of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and the Santa Fe-based School of American Archaeology, he illustrates the way that competition for status and prestige shaped the way that archaeological remains were explored and interpreted. The decades-long competition between institutions and their advocates ultimately created an agenda for Southwest archaeology that has survived into modern times. Snead takes us back to the days when the field was populated by relic hunters and eastern museum men who formed uneasy alliances among themselves and with western boosters who used archaeology to advance their own causes. Richard Wetherill, Frederic Ward Putnam, Charles Lummis, and other colorful characters all promoted their own archaeological endeavors before an audience that included wealthy patrons, museum administrators, and other cultural figures. The resulting competition between scholarly and public interests shifted among museum halls, legislative chambers, and the drawing rooms of Victorian America but always returned to the enigmatic ruins of Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde. \u003ci\u003eRuins and Rivals\u003c\/i\u003e contains a wealth of anecdotal material that conveys the flavor of digs and discoveries, scholars and scoundrels, tracing the origins of everything from national monuments to Santa Fe Style. It rekindles the excitement of discovery, illustrating the role that archaeology played in creating the southwestern past and how that image of antiquity continues to exert its influence today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50127321366801,"sku":"CIN0816523975G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50658677555473,"sku":"CIN0816523975VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0816523975.jpg?v=1757153796"},{"product_id":"white-screens-black-images-book-james-snead-9781138165038","title":"White Screens\/Black Images","description":"Hollywood's representation of blacks has been consistently misleading, promoting an artificially constructed mythology in place of historical fact. But how, James Snead asks, did black skin on screen develop into a complex code for various types of white supremacist discourse?  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