Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture (Thinking Through Cinema)

About this book

Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywoods Construction of Afro-American Culture goes beyond reflection theories of the media to examine cinemas active participation in the operations of racism --a complex process rooted in the dynamics of representation. Written for undergraduates and graduate students of film studies and philosophy Reel Racism focuses on methods and frameworks that analyze films for their production of meaning and how those meanings participate in a broader process of justifying naturalizing or legitimizing difference privilege and violence based on race. In addition to analyzing how the process of racism is articulated in specific films Reel Racism examines how specific meanings can resist their function of ideological containment and instead offer a perspective of a more collective egalitarian social system-- one that transcends the discourse of race.