Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II - Tapa blanda

Robinson, Cedric J.

 
9780807858417: Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II
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ISBN 10: 0807858412 ISBN 13: 9780807858417
Editorial: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007

Sinopsis

Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans.

Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the parallel growth of racial beliefs and capitalism, beginning with Shakespearean England and the development of international trade. He demonstrates how the needs of American commerce determined the construction of successive racial regimes that were publicized in the theater and in motion pictures, particularly through plantation and jungle films. In addition to providing new depth and complexity to the history of black representation, Robinson examines black resistance to these practices. Whereas D. W. Griffith appropriated black minstrelsy and romanticized a national myth of origins, Robinson argues that Oscar Micheaux transcended uplift films to create explicitly political critiques of the American national myth. Robinson's analysis marks a new way of approaching the intellectual, political, and media racism present in the beginnings of American narrative cinema.

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CEDRIC J. ROBINSON is professor of black studies and political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of four other books, including Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (from the University of North Carolina Press).

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Editorial
The University of North Carolina Press
Año de publicación
2007
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ISBN 10 
0807858412
ISBN 13 
9780807858417
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Número de páginas
454
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