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Blackface, white noise : Jewish immigrants in the Hollywood melting pot /
The founding Hollywood movie, Birth of a Nation, celebrated the Ku Klux Klan. The first talking picture, The Jazz Singer, was a blackface film. Gone With the Wind remains the all-time box-office success. From their beginnings, Michael Rogin claims, motion pictures created a national culture by takin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1996]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One. Made in America. Uncle Sammy and my Mammy ; Two declarations of independence: the contaminated origins of American national culture ; Nationalism, blackface, and the Jewish question
- Part Two. The Jolson story. Blackface, white noise: the Jewish jazz singer finds his voice ; Racial masquerade and ethnic assimilation in the transition to talking pictures.
- "Democracy and burnt cork": the end of blackface, the beginning of civil rights. New Deal blackface ; "We could cross these racial lines": Hollywood discovers civil rights ; Conclusion: Abington Township.