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Black male frames :

(Number (ISBN

0815652879

(Number (ISBN

9780815652878

Erroneous ISBN

0815633823

Erroneous ISBN

9780815633822

Erroneous ISBN

9780815682878 (e-book)

Title Proper

Black male frames :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

African Americans in a century of Hollywood cinema, 1903-2003 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Roland Leander Williams Jr.

Edition Statement

First Edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Syracuse, New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Syracuse University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xvii, 200 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, portraits

Series Title

Television and Popular Culture

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index.

Text of Note

Original frames -- New negro -- Renaissance man -- Civil servant -- Soul brother -- Good buddy -- Curtain call.

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Text of Note

Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" or "the scoundrel." Starting with colonial times, Williams identifies the origins of these roles in an America where black men were forced either to defy or to defer to their white masters. These figures recur in the stories America tells about its black men, from the fictional Jim Crow and Zip Coon to historical figures such as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Williams argues that these two extremes persist today in modern Hollywood, where actors such as Sam Lucas, Paul Robeson, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, and Morgan Freeman, among others, must cope with and work around such limited options. Williams situates these actors' performances of one or the other stereotype within each man's personal history and within the country's historical moment, ultimately to argue that these men are rewarded for their portrayal of the stereotypes most needed to put America's ongoing racial anxieties at ease. Reinvigorating the discussion that began with Donald Bogle's seminal work, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks, Black Male Frames illuminates the ways in which individuals and the media respond to the changing racial politics in America.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctt1hzbqn0

Title

Black male frames.

International Standard Book Number

0815633823

Parallel Title

African Americans in a century of Hollywood cinema, 1903-2003

African Americans in motion pictures.

Motion pictures-- Social aspects-- United States.

Motion pictures-- United States-- History.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.

African Americans in motion pictures.

Motion pictures-- Social aspects.

Motion pictures.

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism

PERFORMING ARTS / Reference

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.

United States.

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PER-- 009000

PER004030

SOC001000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Williams, Roland Leander

Date of Transaction

20200822135118.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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