confronting Hollywood's construction of Afro-American culture /
Vincent F. Rocchio
xiii, 235 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
Thinking through cinema
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221) and index
1. Introduction : revisiting racism and cinema -- 2. The birth of a (racist) nation(al) cinema -- 3. The Gods must be crazy (privileged, but crazy) -- 4. Driving Miss Daisy (because she's white and I'm not -- 5. Mississippi (and history) burning -- 6. A world apart (from the world of privilege) -- 7. School daze and the politics of appropriation -- 8. Do the right thing: style as confrontation -- 9. Daughters of the dust and the figurative as mode of resistance -- 10. The great white men of Lambarene and the limits of representation -- Epilogue : racism, representation, and the role of theory