Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
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Notes:

• 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:á — Art hurts: art urges voyages and it is easier to stay at home / Blake 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 Marcel Fierce — Blaxploitation film: from Black dynamite to Django unchained / Brian E Butler — Between The butler and Black dynamite: servility, militancy, and the meaning of blaxploitation / Andrew Grossman — Rednecks, racism & religion the white, the black & the mist: ‘King & 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 — South Africa as a metaphor for US racial dreams and fears in Invictus / 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 C. Grosvenor — Reimagining Gatsby as black or white in Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The great Gatsby / Cammie Sublette — The present imagines the future. The hunger games, race, and social class / Sonya Brown — Rise of The planet of the people: resistance and revolution / Doug Morris — The 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 Murgia — Revoking the privilege of forgetting : white supremacy Interrogated in 12 years a slave / David

Subjects:

• African Americans in motion pictures.
• Race in motion pictures.
• Racism in motion pictures.
• Motion pictures — United States — History — 21st century.

Requested by Kurpiers, R