A Long, Long Way: Hollywood's Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation
- ISBN-10
- 0190906251
- ISBN-13
- 9780190906252
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Greg Garrett
Description
"Hollywood films are perhaps the most powerful storytellers in American history, and their depiction of race and culture has helped to shape the way people around the world respond to race and prejudice. Over the past one hundred years, films have moved from the radically-prejudiced views of people of color to the depiction of people of color by writers and filmmakers from within those cultures. In the process, we begin to see how films have depicted negative versions of people outside the white mainstream, and how film might become a vehicle for racial reconciliation. Religious traditions offer powerful correctives to our cultural narratives, and this work incorporates both narrative truthtelling and religious truthtelling as we consider race and film and work toward reconciliation. By exploring the hundred-year period from The Birth of a Nation to Get Out, this work acknowledges the racist history of America, and offers the possibility of hope for the future"--
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