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White Screens, Black Images

Hollywood from the Dark Side

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180 pages
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7 hours

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Explores modes of racial coding in Hollywood cinema from 1915 to 1985. This study presents three major methods through which racist ideology functions in film - "mythification", marking and omission. It analyzes film texts drawn from both classical Hollywood and Black independent film culture.

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White Screens, Black Images, James A. Snead

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Released
1994
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€4.79

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