Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-american Culture

Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-american Culture
ISBN-10
0429977379
ISBN-13
9780429977374
Category
Social Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2018-05-04
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Vincent F. Rocchio

Description

This study looks beyond reflection theories of the media to examine cinema's active participation in the operations of racism - a complex process rooted in the dynamics of representation. Written for undergraduates and graduate students of film studies and philosophy, this work focuses on methods and frameworks that analyze films for their production of meaning and how those meanings participate in a broader process of justifying, naturalizing, or legitimizing difference, privilege, and violence based on race. In addition to analyzing how the process of racism is articulated in specific films, it examines how specific meanings can resist their function of ideological containment, and instead, offer a perspective of a more collective, egalitarian social system - one that transcends the discourse of race.

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