| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : embodying cinema -- Performing body, performing image : race and the boundaries of early cinematic narrative -- Face, race, and screen : close-ups and the transition to the feature film -- Recasting shadows : race, image, and audience -- "Cinema at its source" : synchronizing race and sound in the early talkies -- Conclusion : red, white, and blue : digital cinema, race, and avatar |
| Summary |
Focusing on American cinema, this title argues that race has defined and supplemented the cinematic apparatus since the earliest motion pictures, and especially at times of transition and technological vulnerability. In particular, the book explores how racialised bodies and the rhetoric of race difference became central to the working out of specifically cinematic problems: the problems of the stationary camera, of developing narrative form, of realism, of synchronising image and sound, and, perhaps most fundamentally, of the absent or "immaterial" image - the cinema's "shadow." |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmography |
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Minorities in motion pictures.
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Race in motion pictures.
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Motion picture industry -- Technological innovations
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Minorities in motion pictures
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Motion picture industry -- Technological innovations
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Race in motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012043821 |
| ISBN |
9781452939384 |
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1452939381 |
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9781452948256 |
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1452948259 |
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