Militant Visions : : Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema / / Elizabeth Reich.
Militant Visions examines how, from the 1940s to the 1970s, the cinematic figure of the black soldier helped change the ways American moviegoers saw black men, for the first time presenting African Americans as vital and integrated members of the nation. In the process, Elizabeth Reich reveals how t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (286 p.) :; 7 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Historicizing and Internationalizing the "Baadasssss" or Imagining Cinematic Reparation
- Part I. "We Return Fighting": The Integration of Hollywood and the Reconstruction of Black Representation
- 1. The Black Soldier and His Colonial Other
- 2. Resounding Blackness: Liveness and the Reprisal of Black Performance in Stormy Weather
- 3. Remembering the Men: Black Audience Propaganda and the Reconstruction of the Black Public Sphere
- Part II. "Fugitive Movements": Black Resistance, Exile, and the Rise of Black Independent Cinema
- 4. Psychic Seditions: Black Interiority, Black Death, and the Mise-en- Scène of Resistance in Cold War Cinema
- 5. Toward a Black Transnational Cinema: Melvin Van Peebles and the Soldier
- 6. The Last Black Soldier: Performing Revolution in The Spook Who Sat by the Door
- Conclusion: After Images
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author