Ellen C Scott

Cinema Civil Rights

Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents the untold history of how Black audiences, activists, and lobbyists influenced the representation of race in Hollywood in the decades before the 1960s civil rights era. Employing a nuanced analysis of power, Ellen C. Scott reveals how these representations were shaped by a complex set of negotiations between various individuals and organiSations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780813571355
• ISBN-10: 0813571359
• Artikelnr.: 40842231

Autorenporträt

ELLEN C. SCOTT is an assistant professor of media studies at Queens College–City University of New York. 

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Regulating Race, Structuring Absence: Industry Self-Censorship and
African American Representability
2. State Censorship and the Color Line
3. Racial Trauma, Civil Rights, and the Brutal Imagination of Darryl F.
Zanuck
4. Shadowboxing: Black Interpretive Activism in the Classical Hollywood Era
Conclusion
Notes
Index