TY  - BOOK
AU  - Izzo,David Garrett
TI  - Movies in the age of Obama: the era of post racial and neo-racist cinema 
SN  - 9781442241299
AV  - PN1995.9.N4 M68 2015
U1  - 791.43/6552 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - African Americans in motion pictures
KW  - Race in motion pictures
KW  - Racism in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
N1  - 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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