Screen Saviors : Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness, Paperback by Vera, Hernan; ...

by Andrew M. Gordon, Hernán Vera

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Screen Saviors : Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness, Paperback by Vera, Hernan; Gordon, Andrew M., ISBN 0847699471, ISBN-13 9780847699476, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Screen Saviors studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood movies—by white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another color. This collaboration by a sociologist and a film critic, using the new perspective of critical "white studies," offers a bold and sweeping critique of almost a century's worth of American film, fromBirth of Nation (1915) through Black Hawk Down (2001). Screen Saviors studies the way in which the social relations that we call "race" are fictionalized and pictured in the movies. It argues that films are part of broader projects that lead us to ignore or deny the nature of the racial divide in which Americans live. Even as the images of racial and ethnic minorities change across the twentieth century, Hollywood keeps portraying the ideal white American self as good-looking, powerful, brave, cordial, kind, firm, and generous: a natural-born leader worthy of the loyalty of those of another color. Th invites readers to conduct their own analyses of films by showing how this can be done in over 50 Hollywood movies. Among these are some films about the Civil War—Birth of a Nation ,Gone with the Wind, and Glory; some about white messiahs who rescue people of another color—Stargate,To Kill a Mockingbird, Mississippi Burning, Three Kings, andThe Matrix

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Year: 2003
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780847699476
• Condition: Fine

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