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.
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.
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."
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Introduction: Historicizing and Internationalizing the "Baadasssss" or Imagining Cinematic Reparation Part I"We Return Fighting": The Integration of Hollywood and the Reconstruction of Black Representation 1 The Black Soldier and His Colonial Other 2 Resounding Blackness: Liveness and the Reprisal of Black Performance in Stormy Weather 3 Remembering the Men: Black Audience Propaganda and the Reconstruction of the Black Public Sphere Part II"Fugitive Movements": Black Resistance, Exile, and the Rise of Black Independent Cinema 4 Psychic Seditions: Black Interiority, Black Death, and the Mise-en-Scène of Resistance in Cold War Cinema 5 Toward a Black Transnational Cinema: Melvin Van Peebles and the Soldier 6 The Last Black Soldier: Performing Revolution in The Spook Who Sat by the Door Conclusion: After Images Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Historicizing and Internationalizing the "Baadasssss" or Imagining Cinematic Reparation Part I"We Return Fighting": The Integration of Hollywood and the Reconstruction of Black Representation 1 The Black Soldier and His Colonial Other 2 Resounding Blackness: Liveness and the Reprisal of Black Performance in Stormy Weather 3 Remembering the Men: Black Audience Propaganda and the Reconstruction of the Black Public Sphere Part II"Fugitive Movements": Black Resistance, Exile, and the Rise of Black Independent Cinema 4 Psychic Seditions: Black Interiority, Black Death, and the Mise-en-Scène of Resistance in Cold War Cinema 5 Toward a Black Transnational Cinema: Melvin Van Peebles and the Soldier 6 The Last Black Soldier: Performing Revolution in The Spook Who Sat by the Door Conclusion: After Images Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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