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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817466603321

Autore

Williams Roland Leander <1953->

Titolo

Black male frames : African Americans in a century of Hollywood cinema, 1903-2003 / / Roland Leander Williams Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Syracuse, New York : , : Syracuse University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8156-5287-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Television and Popular Culture

Disciplina

791.43089/96073

Soggetti

African Americans in motion pictures

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States

Motion pictures - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Original frames -- New Negro -- Renaissance man -- Civil servant -- Soul brother -- Good buddy -- Curtain call.

Sommario/riassunto

"Charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film? "the shaman" and "the scoundrel." Starting with colonial times, Williams identifies the origins of these roles in an America where black men were forced either to defy or to defer to their white masters. These figures recur in the stories America tells about its black men, from the fictional Jim Crow and Zip Coon to historical figures such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois."