Passing and posing between black and white : calibrating the color line in U.S. cinema / Lisa Gotto ; translated by Rudolph Saliba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gotto, Lisa, author.

Series:

FilmStudies.

FilmStudies

Standardized Title:

Traum und Trauma in Schwarz-Weiss. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Race in motion pictures--History.

Race in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

African Americans--Social life and customs.

History.

Black people in motion pictures.

African Americans in motion pictures.

Passing (Identity) in motion pictures.

United States.

Passing (Identity) in motion pictures--History.

African Americans in motion pictures--History.

Black people in motion pictures--History.

African Americans--Social life and customs--History.

African Americans.

Race films.

Physical Description:

246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2021]

Summary:

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 negating 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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

I. Conquered

Unconquered

The Birth of a Nation (David Wark Griffith, USA 1915)

The Symbol of the Unconquered (Oscar Micheaux, USA 1920)

II. Reflections

Shadows

Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, USA 1959)

Shadows (John Cassavetes, USA 1959)

III. Blackface

Whiteface

Bamboozled (Spike Lee, USA 2000)

The Human Stain (Robert Benton, USA 2003)

Conclusion

IV. Appendix

Bibliography

Filmography

Notes:

"Originally published as: Lisa Gotto, Traum und Trauma in Schwarz-Weiss. ethnische Grenzgänge im amerikanischen Film, Konstanz: UVK 2006"--Title page verso.

Thesis (doctoral)--Bauhaus-Universit̃t, Weimar.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243).

Other Format:

PDF version

ISBN:

9783837653373

3837653374

OCLC:

1269197381

Publisher Number:

99988764033