Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era - Softcover

Scott, Ellen C.

 
9780813571355: Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813571359 ISBN 13: 9780813571355
Verlag: RUTGERS UNIV PR, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

From Al Jolson in blackface to Song of the South, there is a long history of racism in Hollywood film. Yet as early as the 1930s, movie studios carefully vetted their releases, removing racially offensive language like the “N-word.” This censorship did not stem from purely humanitarian concerns, but rather from worries about boycotts from civil rights groups and loss of revenue from African American filmgoers.


Cinema Civil Rights presents the untold history of how Black audiences, activists, and lobbyists influenced the representation of race in Hollywood in the decades before the 1960s civil rights era. Employing a nuanced analysis of power, Ellen C. Scott reveals how these representations were shaped by a complex set of negotiations between various individuals and organizations. Rather than simply recounting the perspective of film studios, she calls our attention to a variety of other influential institutions, from protest groups to state censorship boards.

Scott demonstrates not only how civil rights debates helped shaped the movies, but also how the movies themselves provided a vital public forum for addressing taboo subjects like interracial sexuality, segregation, and lynching. Emotionally gripping, theoretically sophisticated, and meticulously researched, Cinema Civil Rights presents us with an in-depth look at the film industry’s role in both articulating and censoring the national conversation on race.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

ELLEN C. SCOTT is an assistant professor of media studies at Queens College–City University of New York. 

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Verlag
RUTGERS UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813571359
ISBN 13 
9780813571355
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Anzahl der Seiten
268
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