1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459826403321

Autore

Scott Ellen C.

Titolo

Cinema civil rights : regulation, repression, and race in the classical hollywood era / / Ellen C. Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, New Jersey ; ; London, [England] : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8135-7137-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Classificazione

AP 44983

Disciplina

791.436520396073

Soggetti

African Americans in motion pictures

Racism in motion pictures

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures

African Americans in the motion picture industry - History - 20th century

African American political activists - History - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century

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

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Regulating Race, Structuring Absence: Industry Self-Censorship And African American Representability -- 2. State Censorship And The Color Line -- 3. Racial Trauma, Civil Rights, And The Brutal Imagination Of Darryl F. Zanuck -- 4. Shadowboxing: Black Interpretive Activism In The Classical Hollywood Era -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About The Author

Sommario/riassunto

From Al Jolson in blackface to Song of the South, there is a long history of racism in Hollywood film. Yet as early as the 1930's, movie studios carefully vetted their releases, removing racially offensive language like the "N-word." This censorship did not stem from purely humanitarian



concerns, but rather from worries about boycotts from civil rights groups and loss of revenue from African American filmgoers. Cinema Civil Rights presents the untold history of how Black audiences, activists, and lobbyists influenced the representation of race in Hollywood in the decades before the 1960's civil rights era. Employing a nuanced analysis of power, Ellen C. Scott reveals how these representations were shaped by a complex set of negotiations between various individuals and organizations. Rather than simply recounting the perspective of film studios, she calls our attention to a variety of other influential institutions, from protest groups to state censorship boards. Scott demonstrates not only how civil rights debates helped shaped the movies, but also how the movies themselves provided a vital public forum for addressing taboo subjects like interracial sexuality, segregation, and lynching. Emotionally gripping, theoretically sophisticated, and meticulously researched, Cinema Civil Rights presents us with an in-depth look at the film industry's role in both articulating and censoring the national conversation on race.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964641103321

Titolo

After postmodernism : an introduction to critical realism / / edited by Jose Lopez and Garry Potter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2005

ISBN

9786611291594

9781281291592

1281291595

9781847141064

1847141064

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Continuum Collection

Altri autori (Persone)

LópezJosé <1966->

PotterGarry <1955->

Disciplina

149.2

Soggetti

Critical realism

Realisme critique

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 (p. [314]-328) and index.

Nota di contenuto

How to change reality: story vs. structure-- a debate between / Rom Harre and Roy Bhaskar -- The intersecting paths of critical relations : multiple realities, the inner planet and three dimensional worlds / Philip Hodgkiss -- Reading Foucault as a realist / Frank Pearce and Tony Woodiwiss -- The ethogenics of agency and structure : a metaphysical problem / Charles R. Varela -- Where is social structure? / John Scott -- Metaphors of social complexity / Jose Lopez -- Sociology and epistemology / Jean Bricmont -- Critical realism and quantum mechanics : some introductory bearings / Christopher Norris -- Why are sociologists naturephobes? / Ted Benton -- Critical realism and political ecology / Tim Forsyth -- Keeping it real : a critique of postmodern theories of cyberspace / Pam Higham -- Is computing really for women? A critical realist approach to gender issues in computing / Sue Clegg -- Truth in fiction, science and criticism / Garry Potter -- Reconsidering literary interpretation / Philip Tew -- Vaporising the real : artificiality, millennial anxiety and the "End of history" / Francis Barker -- Rorty on pragmaticism, liberalism and the self / Justin Cruikshank -- Realism and research, philosophy and poverty politics : the example of smoking / David Ford -- Descartes' individualistic epistemology--a critique / Allison Assiter -- Social movements and science : the question of plural knowledge systems / Jenneth Parker -- Do realists run regressions? / Douglas V. Porpora -- Marx, Hegel and the specificity of the political / Robert Fine -- Critical realism in light of Marx's process of abstraction / Bertell Ollman -- On real and nominal absences / Andrew Collier.

Sommario/riassunto

What comes after 'postmodernism'? A buzzword which began as an energising, radical critique became, by the 20th Century's end, a byword for fracture, eclecticism, political apathy and intellectual exhaustion.The last few years have seen a growing interest in critical realism as a possible, alternative way of moving forward. The virtues of critical realism lie in its successful provision of a philosophical grounding for the social sciences and humanities and of a methodology applicable to many different fields of analysis.After Postmodernism brings together some of the best-known names in the f