Screen Saviors Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness,9780847699476

Screen Saviors Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness

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ISBN13: 9780847699476
ISBN10: 0847699471
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-01-21
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

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

Table of Contents

Foreword: A Nation of Sheep vii
Joe R. Feagin
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1(4)
Learning to Be White through the Movies
5(10)
The Divided White Self
15(18)
The Beautiful White American: Sincere Fictions of the Savior
33(19)
Amistad: Civilization and Its Contentments
52(15)
Mutiny on the Bounty: Civilization and Its Discontents
67(17)
Racism as a Project: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
84(16)
Scarlett and Mammy Revisited: White Women and Black Women in Hollywood Films
100(15)
White Out: Racial Masquerade by Whites in American Film I
115(18)
White Out: Racial Masquerade by Whites in American Film II
133(21)
Black and White Buddies I
154(17)
Black and White Buddies II
171(14)
Conclusion: The Crisis of Whiteness
185(10)
Index 195(8)
About the Authors 203

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