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Movies in the age of Obama : the era of post racial and neo-racist cinema / edited by David Garrett Izzo.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]Description: xii, 301 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781442241299
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6552 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.N4 M68 2015
Contents:
Introduction / David Garrett Izzo -- Resonance from the past: experience is learned backwards, but must be lived forwards. "I really need a maid!": white womanhood in The Help / Kwakiutl L. Dreher -- Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville and Tate Taylor's Jackson: -- "Art hurts. Art urges voyages--and it is easier to stay at home" / Blake G. Hobby -- If Django and Lincoln could talk: James Baldwin goes to the movies / Robert McParland -- The exceptional n*gger: redefining African-American identity in Django Unchained / Rodney M. D. Fierce -- Blaxploitation in the age of Obama: Black Dynamite, Django Unchained, racial reasoning, and racial capitalism / Brian E. Butler -- Between The Butler and Black Dynamite: servility, militancy, and the meaning of blaxploitation / Andrew Grossman -- Rednecks, racism, and religion: King and Darabont's precarious prophecy of Obama's coming / Victoria McCollum -- The present is an eternal now connecting past and future. "I am Trayvon Martin": Obama and the Black male in cinema / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Alisha Saiyed -- Invictus: South Africa as a post-racial fantasy in the age of Obama / Sohinee Roy -- "Mama, I think I broke something": thinking about the environment in Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild / Irina Negrea -- It's not a wonderful life: the financial crisis on film and the limits of Hollywood liberalism / Peter Grosvenor -- Reimagining Barack Obama as Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby / Cammie Sublette -- The present imagines the future. The Hunger Games, race, and social class in Obama's America / Sonya C. Brown -- Rise of The planet of the people: contradictions and revolution in Rise of the Planet of the Apes / Doug Morris -- 2013 Academy Award for best picture: 12 Years a Slave. "Under the floorboards of this nation": trauma, representation, and the stain of history in 12 Years a Slave / Ed Cameron and Linda Belau -- 162 years after 12 Years a Slave: a viewing through double-consciousness / Salvador Murguia -- Revoking the privilege of forgetting: white supremacy interrogated in 12 Years a Slave / David M. Jones -- No, you can't: passive protagonists in The Blind Side, Django Unchained, and 12 Years a Slave / Thomas Britt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / David Garrett Izzo -- Resonance from the past: experience is learned backwards, but must be lived forwards. "I really need a maid!": white womanhood in The Help / Kwakiutl L. Dreher -- Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville and Tate Taylor's Jackson: -- "Art hurts. Art urges voyages--and it is easier to stay at home" / Blake G. Hobby -- If Django and Lincoln could talk: James Baldwin goes to the movies / Robert McParland -- The exceptional n*gger: redefining African-American identity in Django Unchained / Rodney M. D. Fierce -- Blaxploitation in the age of Obama: Black Dynamite, Django Unchained, racial reasoning, and racial capitalism / Brian E. Butler -- Between The Butler and Black Dynamite: servility, militancy, and the meaning of blaxploitation / Andrew Grossman -- Rednecks, racism, and religion: King and Darabont's precarious prophecy of Obama's coming / Victoria McCollum -- The present is an eternal now connecting past and future. "I am Trayvon Martin": Obama and the Black male in cinema / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Alisha Saiyed -- Invictus: South Africa as a post-racial fantasy in the age of Obama / Sohinee Roy -- "Mama, I think I broke something": thinking about the environment in Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild / Irina Negrea -- It's not a wonderful life: the financial crisis on film and the limits of Hollywood liberalism / Peter Grosvenor -- Reimagining Barack Obama as Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby / Cammie Sublette -- The present imagines the future. The Hunger Games, race, and social class in Obama's America / Sonya C. Brown -- Rise of The planet of the people: contradictions and revolution in Rise of the Planet of the Apes / Doug Morris -- 2013 Academy Award for best picture: 12 Years a Slave. "Under the floorboards of this nation": trauma, representation, and the stain of history in 12 Years a Slave / Ed Cameron and Linda Belau -- 162 years after 12 Years a Slave: a viewing through double-consciousness / Salvador Murguia -- Revoking the privilege of forgetting: white supremacy interrogated in 12 Years a Slave / David M. Jones -- No, you can't: passive protagonists in The Blind Side, Django Unchained, and 12 Years a Slave / Thomas Britt.

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