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The birth of whiteness : race and the emergence of U.S. cinema

Title
  1. The birth of whiteness : race and the emergence of U.S. cinema / edited by Daniel Bernardi.
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  1. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Bernardi, Daniel, 1964-
Description
  1. viii, 378 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Race relations in motion pictures
  2. Racism in motion pictures
  3. Minorities in motion pictures
  4. Silent films > United States > History and criticism
Contents
  1. The re-birth of the aestetic in cinema / Clyde Taylor -- The making of The birth of a race : the emerging politics of identity in silent movies / Thomas Cripps -- Identity and betrayal : The symbol of the unconquered and Oscar Micheaux's "biographical legend" / Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence -- The accepted idea displaced : stereotype and Sessue Hayakawa / Donald Kirihara -- The voice of whiteness : D.W. Griffith's Biograph films / Daniel Bernardi -- The family on the land : race and nationhood in silent westerns / Virginia Wright Wexman -- Race and the reception of Jack Johnson fight films / Dan Streible -- Birth of the Southwest : social protest, tourism, and D.W. Griffith's Ramona / Chon A. Noriega -- The undoing of the other woman : Madame Butterfly in the discourse of American orientalism / Nick Browne -- Tragic and transcendent love in The forbidden city / Gina Marchetti -- The revenge of Rain-in-the-Face? or, Custers and Indians on the silent screen / Roberta E. Pearson -- Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North : the politics of taxidermy and romantic ethnography / Fatimah Tobing Rony -- Touring the Orient with Lafcadio Hearn and Cecil B. DeMille : highbrow versus lowbrow in a consumer culture / Sumiko Higashi.
Call number
  1. Sc E 96-796
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-362) and index.
Title
  1. The birth of whiteness : race and the emergence of U.S. cinema / edited by Daniel Bernardi.
Imprint
  1. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1996.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-362) and index.
Added author
  1. Bernardi, Daniel, 1964-
LCCN
  1. 95052727
ISBN
  1. 0813522757 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0813522765 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  3. 0813522773 (cloth : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. Sc E 96-796
  2. MFL 96-13882
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