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The Hollywood Jim Crow : The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry /

The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn't believe that Denzel Washington could 'open' a western genre film, provide glaring evidence that the opportunities for people of colo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Erigha, Maryann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Hollywood's racial logic
  • Labeling black unbankable
  • Directing on the margins
  • Making genre ghettos
  • Manufacturing racial stigma
  • Remaking cinema
  • Conclusion.