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Black Children in Hollywood Cinema : Cast in Shadow / / by Debbie Olson



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Autore: Olson Debbie Visualizza persona
Titolo: Black Children in Hollywood Cinema : Cast in Shadow / / by Debbie Olson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages) : illustrations (some color), charts
Disciplina: 791.430973
Soggetto topico: Motion pictures, American
Ethnology - America
Culture
African Americans
Youth - Social life and customs
Communication
American Film and TV
American Culture
African American Culture
Youth Culture
Media and Communication
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. African American Girls in Hollywood Cinema -- 3. Black Boys and the Urban Ghetto Child -- 4. Soldier Bo[d]y: The Transnational Circulation of the African (American) Savage Child Image -- 5. The Black Child Star.
Sommario/riassunto: This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film. Debbie Olson argues that within the discourse of children's studies and film scholarship in relation to the conception of "the child," there is often little to no distinction among children by race-the "child" is most often discussed as a universal entity, as the embodiment of all things not adult, not (sexually) corrupt. Discussions about children of color among scholars often take place within contexts such as crime, drugs, urbanization, poverty, or lack of education that tend to reinforce historically stereotypical beliefs about African Americans. Olson looks at historical conceptions of childhood within scholarly discourse, the child character in popular film and what space the black child (both African and African American) occupies within that ideal.
Titolo autorizzato: Black Children in Hollywood Cinema  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9783319482736
3319482734
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910255360203321
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