LEADER 04197nam 2200661 450 001 9910458407303321 005 20210603012450.0 010 $a1-4422-4130-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000001349208 035 $a(EBL)1776252 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001333416 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12599207 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001333416 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11385756 035 $a(PQKB)11571145 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1776252 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1776252 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10924267 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL640458 035 $a(OCoLC)890072020 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001349208 100 $a20140914h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMovies in the age of Obama $ethe era of post racial and neo-racist cinema /$fedited by David Garrett Izzo 210 1$aLanham, Maryland ;$aLondon, England :$cRowman & Littlefield,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (315 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-09207-9 311 $a1-4422-4129-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Introduction; Part I: Resonance from the Past: Experience Is Learned Backward But Must Be Lived Forward; 1 "I Really Need a Maid!" White Womanhood in The Help; 2 Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville and Tate Taylor's Jackson: "Art hurts. Art urges voyages-and it is easier to stay at home."; 3 If Django and Lincoln Could Talk: James Baldwin Goes to the Movies; 4 The Exceptional N*gger: Redefining African American Identity in Django Unchained; 5 Blaxploitation in the Age of Obama: Black Dynamite, Django Unchained, Racial Reasoning, and Racial Capitalism 327 $a6 Between The Butler and Black Dynamite: Servility, Militancy, and the Meaning of Blaxploitation7 Rednecks, Racism, and Religion: King and Darabont's Precarious Prophecy of Obama's Coming; Part II: The Present Is an Eternal Now Connecting Past and Future; 8 "I Am Trayvon Martin": Obama and the Black Male in Cinema; 9 Invictus: South Africa as a Post-racial Fantasy in the Age of Obama; 10 "Mama, I Think I Broke Something": Thinking about the Environment in Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild 327 $a11 It's Not a Wonderful Life: The Financial Crisis on Film and the Limits of Hollywood Liberalism12 Reimagining Barack Obama as Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's Film Adaptation of The Great Gatsby; Part III: The Present Imagines the Future; 13 The Hunger Games, Race, and Social Class in Obama's America; 14 Rise of the Planet of the People: Contradictions and Revolution in Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Part IV: 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave; 15 "Under the Floorboards of This Nation": Trauma, Representation, and the Stain of History in 12 Years a Slave 327 $a16 162 Years after 12 Years a Slave: A Viewing through Double-Consciousness17 Revoking the Privilege of Forgetting: White Supremacy Interrogated in 12 Years a Slave; 18 No, You Can't: Passive Protagonists in The Blind Side, Django Unchained, and 12 Years a Slave; Index; About the Editor and Contributors 330 $aThis collection of essays looks at how films in the last few years have reflected and juxtaposed the ascent of Barack Obama and his administration. The films examined here include The Help, Django Unchained, Lincoln, The Mist, Invictus, Black Dynamite, and The Great Gatsby. 606 $aAfrican Americans in motion pictures 606 $aMotion pictures$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aRace in motion pictures 606 $aRacism in motion pictures 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in motion pictures. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory 615 0$aRace in motion pictures. 615 0$aRacism in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43/6552 702 $aIzzo$b David Garrett 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458407303321 996 $aMovies in the age of Obama$92450730 997 $aUNINA