Screen Saviors
Screen Saviors
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This collaboration by a sociologist and film critic offers a critique of almost a century's worth of American film, from 1915 to 2001. It studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood movies - by white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another colour.
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Screen Saviors by Andrew Gordon
This collaboration by a sociologist and film critic offers a critique of almost a century's worth of American film, from 1915 to 2001. It studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood movies - by white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another colour.
The study cuts through 84 years of films with many specific and accurate analysesIt will give instructors a new perspective and students tough questions to ask in many classes. Recommended. * CHOICE *
Through a careful, detailed examination of an impressive number of significant American films, the authors vividly demonstrate the extent to which notions of white supremacy assert themselves, often unconsciously, even in works in which a liberal, ostensibly anti-racist viewpoint dominates. Screen Saviors is an important contribution to cinema studies and to the growing body of scholarship devoted to the study of white identity. -- Robert Elliot Fox, Southern Illinois University
Analyzes the images of white protagonists interacting with people of another race or ethnicity in American movies from 1915's 'Birth of a Nation' to 'Black Hawk Down' in 2001. This book reveals the diverse, often disturbing ways in which movies manufacture the 'white self,' the image and the story of whiteness articulated by white film makers. * Beaches Leader *
This book reveals the diverse, often disturbing ways in which movies manufacture the 'white self'—the image and story of whiteness articulated by white filmmakers. Avoiding polemical posturing and relying upon historical analysis, the authors provide us with an insightful project that is written with clarity and care. -- Daniel Bernardi, University of Arizona
Provocative book. There's plenty to enjoy. * Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal *
A pioneering and highly original book. From Birth of a Nation to the latest Hollywood films, Vera and Gordon describe and critically analyze Hollywood movies made by dozens of different white directors, producers, and writers, people with different imaginations and styles. Yet virtually all the movies they have made fit the same mold of not challenging white privilege. -- Joe R. Feagin, from the Foreword
If you want to explore a colorful, controversial side of film lore, check out Screen Saviors. At the very least, it'll make you think about what you are watching. * Rockford Register Star *
A valuable addition to the growing scholarship of hegemonic whiteness in America. * Contemporary Sociology *
Through a careful, detailed examination of an impressive number of significant American films, the authors vividly demonstrate the extent to which notions of white supremacy assert themselves, often unconsciously, even in works in which a liberal, ostensibly anti-racist viewpoint dominates. Screen Saviors is an important contribution to cinema studies and to the growing body of scholarship devoted to the study of white identity. -- Robert Elliot Fox, Southern Illinois University
Analyzes the images of white protagonists interacting with people of another race or ethnicity in American movies from 1915's 'Birth of a Nation' to 'Black Hawk Down' in 2001. This book reveals the diverse, often disturbing ways in which movies manufacture the 'white self,' the image and the story of whiteness articulated by white film makers. * Beaches Leader *
This book reveals the diverse, often disturbing ways in which movies manufacture the 'white self'—the image and story of whiteness articulated by white filmmakers. Avoiding polemical posturing and relying upon historical analysis, the authors provide us with an insightful project that is written with clarity and care. -- Daniel Bernardi, University of Arizona
Provocative book. There's plenty to enjoy. * Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal *
A pioneering and highly original book. From Birth of a Nation to the latest Hollywood films, Vera and Gordon describe and critically analyze Hollywood movies made by dozens of different white directors, producers, and writers, people with different imaginations and styles. Yet virtually all the movies they have made fit the same mold of not challenging white privilege. -- Joe R. Feagin, from the Foreword
If you want to explore a colorful, controversial side of film lore, check out Screen Saviors. At the very least, it'll make you think about what you are watching. * Rockford Register Star *
A valuable addition to the growing scholarship of hegemonic whiteness in America. * Contemporary Sociology *
Hernán Vera is professor of sociology at the University of Florida and an author of several books on race relations. Andrew M. Gordon is associate professor of English at the University of Florida and a film critic.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780847699476 |
| ISBN 10 | 0847699471 |
| Titre | Screen Saviors |
| Auteur | Andrew Gordon |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Année de publication | 2003-01-21 |
| Nombre de pages | 272 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |