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The Persistence of Whiteness investigates the representation and
narration of race in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Ideologies of
class, ethnicity, gender, nation and sexuality are central concerns
as are the growth of the business of filmmaking. Focusing on
representations of Black, Asian, Jewish, Latina/o and Native
Americans identities, this collection also shows how whiteness is a
fact everywhere in contemporary Hollywood cinema, crossing
audiences, authors, genres, studios and styles. Bringing together
essays from respected film scholars, the collection covers a wide
range of important films, including Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,
The Color Purple, Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings. Essays also
consider genres from the western to blaxploitation and new black
cinema; provocative filmmakers such as Melvin Van Peebles and
Steven Spielberg and stars including Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer
Lopez. Daniel Bernardi provides an in-depth introduction,
comprehensive bibliography and a helpful glossary of terms, thus
providing students with an accessible and topical collection on
race and ethnicity in contemporary cinema.
The Persistence of Whiteness investigates the representation and
narration of race in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Ideologies of
class, ethnicity, gender, nation and sexuality are central concerns
as are the growth of the business of filmmaking. Focusing on
representations of Black, Asian, Jewish, Latina/o and Native
Americans identities, this collection also shows how whiteness is a
fact everywhere in contemporary Hollywood cinema, crossing
audiences, authors, genres, studios and styles. Bringing together
essays from respected film scholars, the collection covers a wide
range of important films, including Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,
The Color Purple, Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings. Essays also
consider genres from the western to blaxploitation and new black
cinema; provocative filmmakers such as Melvin Van Peebles and
Steven Spielberg and stars including Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer
Lopez. Daniel Bernardi provides an in-depth introduction,
comprehensive bibliography and a helpful glossary of terms, thus
providing students with an accessible and topical collection on
race and ethnicity in contemporary cinema.
Leading scholars address the myriad ways in which America's
attitudes about race informed the production of Hollywood films
from the 1920s through the 1960s. From the predominantly white star
system to segregated mise-en-scenes, Hollywood films reinforced
institutionalized racism. The contributors to this volume examine
how assumptions about white superiority and colored inferiority and
the politics of segregation and assimilation affected Hollywood's
classic period. Contributors: Eric Avila, UCLA; Aaron Baker,
Arizona State U; Karla Rae Fuller, Columbia College; Andrew Gordon,
U of Florida; Allison Graham, U of Memphis; Joanne Hershfield, U of
North Carolina; Cindy Hing-Yuk Wond, College of Staten Island,
CUNY; Arthur Knight, William and Mary; Sarah Madsen Hardy, Bryn
Mawr; Gina Marchetti, U of Maryland; Gary W. McDonogh; Chandra
Mukerji, UC, San Diego; Martin F. Norden, U of Massachusetts; Brian
O'Neil, U of Southern Mississippi; Roberta E. Pearson, Cardiff U;
Marguerite H. Rippy, Marymount U; Nicholas Sammond; Beretta E.
Smith-Shomade, U of Arizona; Peter Stanfield, Southampton
Institute; Kelly Thomas; Hernan Vera, U of Florida; Karen Wallace,
U of Wisconsin, Oshkosh; Thomas E. Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke;
Geoffrey M. White, U of Hawai'i; and Jane Yi.
Off the Page examines the business and craft of screenwriting in
the era of media convergence. Bernardi and Hoxter use the recent
history of screenwriting labor coupled with close analysis of the
screenwriting para-industry-from "how to write a winning script"
books to screenwriting software-to explore the state of
screenwriting throughout the US media industries. They address the
conglomerate studios making tentpole movies, expanded television,
Indiewood, independent animation, microbudget scripting, the video
games industry, and online content creation. This book is designed
to be used by students and writers who want to understand what
studios want and why they want it, but also how scripting is
developing in the convergent media, beneath and beyond the
Hollywood tent-pole. By addressing specific genres old and new,
across a wide range of media, this essential volume sets the
standard for anyone in the expanded screenwriting industry and the
scholars that study it.
As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily
involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of
film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented
onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews have also
helped to produce some of the most troubling stereotypes of people
of colour in Hollywood film history. In Hollywood's Chosen People:
The Jewish Experience in American Cinema, leading scholars consider
the complex relationship between Jews and the film industry, as
Jews have helped to construct Hollywood's vision of the American
dream and American collective identity and have in turn been shaped
by those representations. Editors Daniel Bernardi, Murray
Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson introduce the volume with an
overview of the history of Jews in American popular culture and the
American film industry. Multidisciplinary contributors go on to
discuss topics such as early Jewish films and directors,
institutionalised anti-Semitism, Jewish identity and gossip
culture, and issues of Jewish performance on film. Contributors
draw on a diverse sampling of films, from representations of the
Holocaust on film to screen comedy; filmmakers and writers,
including David Mamet, George Cukor, Sidney Lumet, Edward Sloman,
and Steven Spielberg; and stars, like Barbara Streisand, Adam
Sandler, and Ben Stiller. The Jewish experience in American cinema
reveals much about the degree to which Jews have been integrated
into and contribute to the making of American popular film culture.
Scholars of Jewish studies, film studies, American history, and
American culture as well as anyone interested in film history will
find this volume fascinating reading. Contributors: Daniel
Bernardi, Vincent Brook, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Lucy Fischer,
Lester D. Friedman, Sumiko Higashi, Sarah Kozloff, Peter Kramer,
Murray Pomerance, Catherine Portuges, William Rothman, Vivian
Sobchack, David Sterritt, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Off the Page examines the business and craft of screenwriting in
the era of media convergence. Bernardi and Hoxter use the recent
history of screenwriting labor coupled with close analysis of the
screenwriting para-industry-from "how to write a winning script"
books to screenwriting software-to explore the state of
screenwriting throughout the US media industries. They address the
conglomerate studios making tentpole movies, expanded television,
Indiewood, independent animation, microbudget scripting, the video
games industry, and online content creation. This book is designed
to be used by students and writers who want to understand what
studios want and why they want it, but also how scripting is
developing in the convergent media, beneath and beyond the
Hollywood tent-pole. By addressing specific genres old and new,
across a wide range of media, this essential volume sets the
standard for anyone in the expanded screenwriting industry and the
scholars that study it.
This expansive three-volume set investigates racial representation
in film, providing an authoritative cross-section of the most
racially significant films, actors, directors, and movements in
American cinematic history. Hollywood has always reflected current
American cultural norms and ideas. As such, film provides a window
into attitudes about race and ethnicity over the last century. This
comprehensive set provides information on hundreds of films chosen
based on scholarly consensus of their importance regarding the
subject, examining aspects of race and ethnicity in American film
through the historical context, themes, and people involved. This
three-volume set highlights the most important films and artists of
the era, identifying films, actors, or characterizations that were
considered racist, were tremendously popular or hugely influential,
attempted to be progressive, or some combination thereof. Readers
will not only learn basic information about each subject but also
be able to contextualize it culturally, historically, and in terms
of its reception to understand what average moviegoers thought
about the subject at the time of its popularity-and grasp how the
subject is perceived now through the lens of history. Views the
films via a historical approach in which every subject is
considered both through a contemporary lens and in terms of the
time of its production and initial reception Provides up-to-date
information on recent movies such as Selma (2014), The Fast and The
Furious (2001-2015), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Django Unchained
(2012), and Lone Survivor (2013) Provides readers with the
information and background necessary to form informed views about
racial representation in film-still an important "hot-button"
subject today Edited by top scholars in the field, Daniel Bernardi
and Michael Green, and contains entries by other important experts,
such as Andrew Gordon and Priscilla Ovalle
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