Turner / Nilsen The Myth of Colorblindness

Race and Ethnicity in American Cinema
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-17447-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book explores representations of race and ethnicity in contemporary cinema and the ways in which these depictions all too often promulgate an important racial ideology: the myth of colorblindness.  Colorblindness is a discursive framework employed by mainstream, neoliberal media to celebrate a multicultural society while simultaneously disregarding its systemic and institutionalized racism. This collection is unique in its examination of such films as Ex Machina , The Lone Ranger , The Blind Side , Zootopia , The Fast and the Furious franchise, and Dope , which celebrate the myth of colorblindness, yet perpetuate and entrench the racism and racial inequities that persist in contemporary society.  While the #OscarsSoWhite movement has been essential to bringing about structural changes to media industries and offers the opportunity for a wide diversity of voices to alter and transform the dominant, colorblind narratives continue to proliferate.  As this book demonstrates, Hollywood still has a long way to go.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Turner, Sarah E.

Nilsen, Sarah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Part I: Colorblindness.- 2. Colorblindness: The Lens that Distorts.- 3. Why Hollywood Remains “SoWhite” and a Note on How to Change It.- PART II: Colorblind Racism in Hollywood Films.- 4. Living in Zootopia: Tracking the Neoliberal Subject in a Colorblind World.- 5. The Paradox of Post-racialism: Black Hollywood’s Voice in Post-Racial Discourse.- 6. Colorblind Racism, The Trump Effect, and The Blind Side.- 7. Will Smith: A Global Brand of Blackness.- 8. Tricks of the (Colorblind) Trade: Hollywood’s Preservation of White Supremacy in the Age of Obama.- PART III: Intersections Between Race, Ethinicity, and Gender and Colorblind Racism in Hollywood.- 9. Zombies, Muslims, and Politics: Racism without Race in Contemporary America.- 10. Latinas/os in Hollywood: Contemporary Representations in Black and White.- 11. Tonto and The Lone Ranger: Nostalgic Kitsch or Post-Racial Backlash?.- 12. Cyborg Woman: Ex Machina and Racial Otherness.- 13. The End of the World, Hollywood, and the Endurance of Military Violence: Elysium and World War Z.

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah E. Turner is a Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Vermont, USA. She is the co-editor of The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America (2014). Her work has appeared in a variety of critical texts including MELUS, Diversity in Disney Films , The Films of Stephen King , and Networking Knowledge: Girls in Popular Culture . Sarah Nilsen is an Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, USA. She is the author of Projecting America: Film and Cultural Diplomacy at the Brussels World’s Fair of 1958 (2011) and co-editor of The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America (2014). Other publications include essays on critical race theory, Disney studies, and Cold War culture.