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Mixed Race Cinemas

Zélie Asava
Mixed Race Cinemas Book PDF

Author : Zélie Asava
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501312489

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Mixed Race Cinemas by Zélie Asava Pdf

Using critical race theory and film studies to explore the interconnectedness between cinema and society, Zélie Asava traces the history of mixed-race representations in American and French filmmaking from early and silent cinema to the present day. Mixed Race Cinemas covers over a hundred years of filmmaking to chart the development of (black/white) mixed representations onscreen. With the 21st century being labelled the Mulatto Millennium, mixed bodies are more prevalent than ever in the public sphere, yet all too often they continue to be positioned as exotic, strange and otherworldly, according to 'tragic mulatto' tropes. This book evaluates the potential for moving beyond fixed racial binaries both onscreen and off by exploring actors and characters who embody the in-between. Through analyses of over 40 movies, and case studies of key films from the 1910s on, Mixed Race Cinemas illuminates landmark shifts in local and global cinema, exploring discourses of subjectivity, race, gender, sexuality and class. In doing so, it reveals the similarities and contrasts between American and French cinema in relation to recognising, visualising and constructing mixedness. Mixed Race Cinemas contextualizes and critiques raced and 'post-race' visual culture, using cinematic representations to illustrate changing definitions of mixed identity across different historical and geographical contexts.

Mixed Race Cinemas

Zélie Asava
Mixed Race Cinemas Book PDF

Author : Zélie Asava
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501312465

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Mixed Race Cinemas by Zélie Asava Pdf

Using critical race theory and film studies to explore the interconnectedness between cinema and society, Zélie Asava traces the history of mixed-race representations in American and French filmmaking from early and silent cinema to the present day. Mixed Race Cinemas covers over a hundred years of filmmaking to chart the development of (black/white) mixed representations onscreen. With the 21st century being labelled the Mulatto Millennium, mixed bodies are more prevalent than ever in the public sphere, yet all too often they continue to be positioned as exotic, strange and otherworldly, according to 'tragic mulatto' tropes. This book evaluates the potential for moving beyond fixed racial binaries both onscreen and off by exploring actors and characters who embody the in-between. Through analyses of over 40 movies, and case studies of key films from the 1910s on, Mixed Race Cinemas illuminates landmark shifts in local and global cinema, exploring discourses of subjectivity, race, gender, sexuality and class. In doing so, it reveals the similarities and contrasts between American and French cinema in relation to recognising, visualising and constructing mixedness. Mixed Race Cinemas contextualizes and critiques raced and 'post-race' visual culture, using cinematic representations to illustrate changing definitions of mixed identity across different historical and geographical contexts.

Fire and Desire

Jane M. Gaines
Fire and Desire Book PDF

Author : Jane M. Gaines
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226278735

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Fire and Desire by Jane M. Gaines Pdf

In the silent era, American cinema was defined by two separate and parallel industries, with white and black companies producing films for their respective, segregated audiences. Jane Gaines's highly anticipated new book reconsiders the race films of this era with an ambitious historical and theoretical agenda. Fire and Desire offers a penetrating look at the black independent film movement during the silent period. Gaines traces the profound influence that D. W. Griffith's racist epic The Birth of a Nation exerted on black filmmakers such as Oscar Micheaux, the director of the newly recovered Within Our Gates. Beginning with What Happened in the Tunnel, a movie that played with race and sex taboos by featuring the first interracial kiss in film, Gaines also explores the cinematic constitution of self and other through surprise encounters: James Baldwin sees himself in the face of Bette Davis, family resemblance is read in Richard S. Robert's portrait of an interracial family, and black film pioneer George P. Johnson looks back on Micheaux. Given the impossibility of purity and the co-implication of white and black, Fire and Desire ultimately questions the category of "race movies" itself.

Mixed Race Hollywood

Mary Beltrán,Camilla Fojas
Mixed Race Hollywood Book PDF

Author : Mary Beltrán,Camilla Fojas
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814799895

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Mixed Race Hollywood by Mary Beltrán,Camilla Fojas Pdf

Addresses early mixed-race film characters, Blaxploitation, mixed race in television for children, and the outing of mixed-race stars on the Internet, among other issues and contemporary trends in mixed-race representation. From publisher description.

Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas

Michelle E. Bloom
Contemporary Sino French Cinemas Book PDF

Author : Michelle E. Bloom
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824875114

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Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas by Michelle E. Bloom Pdf

Transnational cinemas are eclipsing national cinemas in the contemporary world, and Sino-French films exemplify this phenomenon through the cinematic coupling of the Sinophone and the Francophone, linking France not just with the Chinese mainland but also with the rest of the Chinese-speaking world. Sinophone directors most often reach out to French cinema by referencing and adapting it. They set their films in Paris and metropolitan France, cast French actors, and sometimes use French dialogue, even when the directors themselves don't understand it. They tend to view France as mysterious, sexy, and sophisticated, just as the French see China and Taiwan as exotic. As Michelle E. Bloom makes clear, many films move past a simplistic opposition between East and West and beyond Orientalist and Occidentalist cross-cultural interplay. Bloom focuses on films that have appeared since 2000 such as Tsai Ming-liang's What Time Is It There? , Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon, and Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. She views the work of these well-known directors through a Sino-French optic, applying the tropes of métissage (or biraciality), intertextuality, adaptation and remake, translation, and imitation to shed new light on their work. She also calls attention to important, lesser studied films: Taiwanese director Cheng Yu-chieh's Yang Yang, which depicts the up-and-coming Taiwanese star Sandrine Pinna as a mixed race beauty; and Emily Tang Xiaobai's debut film Conjugation, which contrasts Paris and post-Tiananmen Square Beijing, the one an incarnation of liberty, the other a place of entrapment. Bloom's insightful analysis also probes what such films reveal about their Taiwanese and Chinese creators. Scholars have long studied Sino-French literature, but this inaugural full-length work on Sino-French cinema maps uncharted territory, offering a paradigm for understanding other cross-cultural interminglings and tools to study transnational cinema and world cinema. The Sino-French, rich and multifaceted, linguistically, culturally, and ethnically, constitutes an important part of film studies, Francophone studies, Sinophone studies and myriad other fields. This is a must-read for students, scholars, and lovers of film.

The Black Irish Onscreen

Zélie Asava
The Black Irish Onscreen Book PDF

Author : Zélie Asava
Publisher : Reimagining Ireland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Black people in motion pictures
ISBN : 3034308396

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The Black Irish Onscreen by Zélie Asava Pdf

This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. Exploring key film and TV productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation, making a significant theoretical contribution to scholarly work on representation and identity in Irish film.

Equivocal Subjects

Shelleen Greene
Equivocal Subjects Book PDF

Author : Shelleen Greene
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441190437

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Equivocal Subjects by Shelleen Greene Pdf

A thorough study of the portrayal of race in Italian cinema, from the silent era to the present, illuminating issues in contemporary Italian society.

Oscar Micheaux and His Circle

Charles Musser,Jane Marie Gaines,Pearl Bowser
Oscar Micheaux and His Circle Book PDF

Author : Charles Musser,Jane Marie Gaines,Pearl Bowser
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253021557

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Oscar Micheaux and His Circle by Charles Musser,Jane Marie Gaines,Pearl Bowser Pdf

Oscar Micheaux—the most prolific African American filmmaker to date and a filmmaking giant of the silent period—has finally found his rightful place in film history. Both artist and showman, Micheaux stirred controversy in his time as he confronted issues such as lynching, miscegenation, peonage and white supremacy, passing, and corruption among black clergymen. In this important collection, prominent scholars examine Micheaux’s surviving silent films, his fellow producers of race films who alternately challenged or emulated his methods, and the cultural activities that surrounded and sustained these achievements. The relationship between black film and both the stage (particularly the Lafayette Players) and the black press, issues of underdevelopment, and a genealogy of Micheaux scholarship, as well as extensive and more accurate filmographies, give a richly textured portrait of this era. The essays will fascinate the general public as well as scholars in the fields of film studies, cultural studies, and African American history. This thoroughly readable collection is a superb reference work lavishly illustrated with rare photographs.

Passing and Posing Between Black and White

Lisa Gotto
Passing and Posing Between Black and White Book PDF

Author : Lisa Gotto
Publisher : Transcript Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3837653374

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Passing and Posing Between Black and White by Lisa Gotto Pdf

Since its inception, U.S. American cinema has grappled with the articulation of racial boundaries. Lisa Gotto examines this constellation along the early history of American film, the cinematic modernism of the late 1950s, and the postclassical cinema of the turn of the millennium.

Women and Mixed Race Representation in Film

Valerie C. Gilbert
Women and Mixed Race Representation in Film Book PDF

Author : Valerie C. Gilbert
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476663388

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Women and Mixed Race Representation in Film by Valerie C. Gilbert Pdf

This book uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age through the studio era, New Hollywood, and into the present century: Josephine Baker, Nina Mae McKinney, Fredi Washington, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Lonette McKee, Jennifer Beals and Halle Berry. Combining biography with detailed film readings, the author fleshes out the tragic mulatto stereotype, while at the same time exploring concepts and themes such as racial identity, the one-drop rule, passing, skin color, transracial adoption, interracial romance, and more. With a wealth of background information, this study also places these actresses in historical context, providing insight into the construction of race, both onscreen and off.

Migrating to the Movies

Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
Migrating to the Movies Book PDF

Author : Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 052093640X

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Migrating to the Movies by Jacqueline Najuma Stewart Pdf

The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and illuminating black urban life in this period, is the first detailed look at the numerous early relationships between African Americans and cinema. It investigates African American migrations onto the screen, into the audience, and behind the camera, showing that African American urban populations and cinema shaped each other in powerful ways. Focusing on Black film culture in Chicago during the silent era, Migrating to the Movies begins with the earliest cinematic representations of African Americans and concludes with the silent films of Oscar Micheaux and other early "race films" made for Black audiences, discussing some of the extraordinary ways in which African Americans staked their claim in cinema's development as an art and a cultural institution.

Race and Role

Rena M. Heinrich
Race and Role Book PDF

Author : Rena M. Heinrich
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978835559

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Race and Role by Rena M. Heinrich Pdf

Mixed-race Asian American plays are often overlooked for their failure to fit smoothly into static racial categories, rendering mixed-race drama inconsequential in conversations about race and performance. Since the nineteenth century, however, these plays have long advocated for the social significance of multiracial Asian people. Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Experience in American Drama traces the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theater from the late-nineteenth century to the present day and explores the ways that mixed-race Asian identity transforms our understanding of race. Mixed-Asian playwrights harness theater’s generative power to enact performances of “double liminality” and expose the absurd tenacity with which society clings to a tenuous racial scaffolding.

Passing and Posing between Black and White

Lisa Gotto
Passing and Posing between Black and White Book PDF

Author : Lisa Gotto
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839453377

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Passing and Posing between Black and White by Lisa Gotto Pdf

Since its inception, U.S. American cinema has grappled with the articulation of racial boundaries. This applies, in the first instance, to featuring mixed-race characters crossing the color line. In a broader sense, however, this also concerns viewing conditions and knowledge configurations. The fact that American film engages itself so extensively with the unbalanced relation between black and white is neither coincidental nor trivial to state — it has much more to do with disputing boundaries that pertain to the medium itself. Lisa Gotto examines this constellation along the early history of American film, the cinematic modernism of the late 1950s, and the post-classical cinema of the turn of the millennium.

Fear of the Dark

Lola Young
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Author : Lola Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134862153

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Fear of the Dark by Lola Young Pdf

Studies of the portrayal of black people in film have tended to be studies for the ideological correctness of the depictions of black people and the extent to which they rely on stereotypes. By closely examining films such as Sapphire (1959), Leo the Last (1969), Black Joy (1977), Playing Away (1986) and Mona Lisa (1987) and situating them in their historical and social context, Fear of the Dark develops a particualar critical perspective on the film portrayal of black female sexuality and questions the extent to which black film makers have challenged stereotypes.

The Immigrant Scene

Sabine Haenni
The Immigrant Scene Book PDF

Author : Sabine Haenni
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816649815

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The Immigrant Scene by Sabine Haenni Pdf

Yiddish melodramas about the tribulations of immigration. German plays about alpine tourism. Italian vaudeville performances. Rubbernecking tours of Chinatown. In the New York City of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these seemingly disparate leisure activities played similar roles: mediating the vast cultural, demographic, and social changes that were sweeping the nation's largest city. In The Immigrant Scene, Sabine Haenni reveals how theaters in New York created ethnic entertainment that shaped the culture of the United States in the early twentieth century. Considering the relationship between leisure and mass culture, The Immigrant Scene develops a new picture of the metropolis in which the movement of people, objects, and images on-screen and in the street helped residents negotiate the complexities of modern times. In analyzing how communities engaged with immigrant theaters and the nascent film culture in New York City, Haenni traces the ways in which performance and cinema provided virtual mobility--ways of navigating the socially complex metropolis--and influenced national ideas of immigration, culture, and diversity in surprising and lasting ways.