Race, Philosophy, and Film

Herausgeber: Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K; Flory, Dan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The collection's contributors anchor their discussions of race through considerations of specific films and television series, which serve as illustrative examples from which the essays' theorizations are drawn. Inclusive and current in its selection of films and genres, the collection incorporates dramas, comedies, horror, and science fiction films (among other genres) into its discussions, as well as recent and popular titles of interest, such as Twilight, Avatar, Machete, True Blood, The Matrix and The Help. The essays compel readers to think more deeply about the films they have seen and their experiences of these narratives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415624459
• ISBN-10: 0415624452
• Artikelnr.: 36722956

Autorenporträt

Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo is Professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, USA. Dan Flory is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Montana State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Philosophical Approaches to Race in Film Dan Flory and Mary
K. Bloodsworth-Lugo Epistemology 1. Imaginative Resistance and the White
Gaze in Machete and The Help Dan Flory 2. Born into Bondage: Teaching The
Matrix and Unlearning the Racial Organization of Knowledge Michael Eng 3.
What's So Bad About Blackface? Christy Mag Uidhir Aesthetics 4. So Now
You're Swedish American?': Jewish-American Women, Philosophies of Beauty in
Requiem for a Dream Renée R. Curry and William Brigham 5.Cruising Through
Race Monique Roelofs Moral Philosophy 6. True Blood and Race: From Progress
to Complacency to Paganism, to Humanity Naomi Zack 7. Avatar: Racism and
Prejudice on Pandora Michael P. Levine and Damian Cox 8. "Now, Imagine
She's White": The Gift of the Black Gaze and the Re-Inscription of
Whiteness as Normative in A Time to Kill George Yancy Social and Political
Philosophy 9. Race As/And (Ex)change: Trading Places and the Rise of
Neo-Liberalism Charles W. Mills 10. Hardly Black and White: Racial and
Sexual Stereotypes in Manderlay and Black Snake Moan Mélanie Walton 11.
Elisions of Race and Stories of Progress: Planet 51 and The Princess and
the Frog Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo Technology and
the (Lived) Body 12.Vampires, Technology, and Racism: The Vampiric Image in
Twilight and Let Me In Brian H. Onishi 13. Desperate Black Female: Sex and
Race in Monster's Ball Lucy Bolton