White Screens Black Images

White Screens Black Images Hollywood from the Dark Side

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Publisher's Synopsis

In these essays, completed shortly before his death in 1989, James Snead offers a thoughtful inquiry into the intricate modes of racial coding in Hollywood cinema from 1915 to 1985.;The text presents three major methods through which the racist ideology within film functions: "mythification", in which black images are correlated in a larger scheme of semiotic valuation where the dominant "I" needs the marginal "other" in order to function effectively; marking, in which the colour 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. The study offers an array of film texts, drawn from both classical Hollywood cinema and Black independent film culture.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780415905732
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.4308996073
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 153
Weight: 454g
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 12mm