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Militant Visions - Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema (Hardcover)
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Militant Visions - Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema (Hardcover)
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When asked to name the first ""militant"" Black characters in film,
we might imagine Blaxploitation heroes like Sweetback or Shaft.
Yet, as this groundbreaking new book shows, there was a much
earlier cycle of films featuring militant Black men - many of which
were sponsored by the U.S. government. 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. Elizabeth Reich traces the figure
across a wide variety of movie genres, from action blockbusters
like Bataan to patriotic musicals like Stormy Weather. In the
process, she reveals how the image of the proud and powerful
African American serviceman was crafted by an unexpected alliance
of government propagandists, civil rights activists, and Black
filmmakers. Offering a nuanced reading of a figure that was
simultaneously conservative and radical, Reich considers how the
cinematic Black soldier lent a human face to ongoing debates about
racial integration, Black internationalism, and American
militarism. She reads the Black soldier in film as inherently
transnational, shaped by the displacements of diaspora, Third World
revolutionary philosophy, and a legacy of Black artistry and
performance. Militant Visions thus not only presents a new history
of how American cinema represented race, it also demonstrates how
film images helped to make history, shaping the progress of the
civil rights movement itself.
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