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White Screens/Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side Book

In these essays, completed shortly before his death in 1989, James Snead offers a thoughtful inquiry into the intricate modes of racial coding in Hollywood cinema from 1915 to 1985. The text presents three major methods through which the racist ideology within film functions: "mythification", in which black images are correlated in a larger scheme of semiotic valuation where the dominant "I" needs the marginal "other" in order to function effectively; marking, in which the colour black is repeatedly over-determined and redundantly marked, as if to force the viewer to register the image's difference from white; and omission - the repetition of black absence from positions of autonomy and importance. The study offers an array of film texts, drawn from both classical Hollywood cinema and Black independent film culture.Read More

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  • 0415905737
  • 9780415905732
  • James Snead, Colin MacCabe, Cornel West
  • 4 August 1994
  • Routledge
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 153
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