Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation : : Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race /

Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation : : Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race / / Susan Courtney.

Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. From the first interracial screen kiss of 1903, through the Production Code's nearly thirty-year ban on depictions of "miscegenation," to the contemplation of m...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Courtney, Susan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2005
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 142 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION. What Happened in the Tunnel and Other Open American Secrets
  • PART ONE: Exhuming the Silent Bodies
  • CHAPTER ONE. The "Agony" of Spectatorship at Biograph
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Mixed Birth of "Great White" Masculinity and the Classical Spectator
  • PART TWO. Color Coding Identity and Desire
  • CHAPTER THREE. "The Un-doable Stories," the "Usual Answers,' and Other "Epidermic Drama [s]": Coming to Terms with the Production Code
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Picturizing Race: On Visibility, Racial Knowledge, and Cinematic Belief
  • PART THREE. Rebirthing a Nation?
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Out of the Plantation and into the Suburbs: Sensational Extremes in the Late 1950s
  • CHAPTER SIX. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with Eldridge Cleaver and the Supreme Court, or Reforming Populär Racial Memory with Hepburn and Tracy
  • Notes
  • Index

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