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Behind the screen : tap dance, race, and invisibility during Hollywood's golden age / Brynn W. Shiovitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shiovitz, Brynn Wein, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical films--United States--History and criticism.
- Musical films.
- African Americans in motion pictures.
- Race in motion pictures.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
- Dance in motion pictures, television, etc--United States--History.
- Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.
- Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (401 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- How and why was outdated racial content - and specifically blackface minstrelsy - not only permitted, but in fact allowed to thrive during the 1930s and 1940s despite the rigid motion picture censorship laws which were enforced during this time? Introducing a new theory of covert minstrelsy, this book illuminates Hollywood's practice of capitalizing on the Africanist aesthetic at the expense of Black lived experience.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Shiovitz, Brynn W. Behind the Screen
- ISBN:
- 0-19-755313-3
- 0-19-755311-7
- 0-19-755312-5
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