Elizabeth Reich

Broschiertes Buch

Militant Visions

Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema

Beschreibung

Examines how, from the 1940s to the 1970s, the cinematic figure of the black soldier helped change the ways American moviegoers saw Black men, for the first time presenting African Americans as vital and integrated members of the nation. Elizabeth Reich traces the figure across a wide variety of movie genres, from action blockbusters to patriotic musicals.

Autor

ELIZABETH REICH is an assistant professor of film studies at Connecticut College in New London. She is the coeditor of Film Criticism’s special issue on “New Approaches to Cinematic Identification.”  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780813572574
• ISBN-10: 0813572576
• Artikelnr.: 44213523