The Hollywood Jim Crow : the racial politics of the movie industry
Subyek
: motion picture
social aspects
united states
Penerbit
: New York University Press - New York
Call Number
: 791.43
MAR
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Ringkasan :From the #OscarsSoWhite phenomenon to the backlash against whitewashing, the racism
experienced by African Americans and other racial minorities in Hollywood, both in front of and
behind the camera, has garnered national attention. In The Hollywood Jim Crow, Maryann
Erigha brings these persistent inequalities into focus, analyzing how everyday practices
in Hollywood thematically mirror Jim Crow laws through the marginalization,
segregation, and stigmatization of Black film directors. Examining over 1,600
contemporary films and their directors, film production organizations, and
box office figures, she illustrates with striking detail the tenacious racial
hierarchies still at work in Hollywood.
The Hollywood Jim Crow deftly exposes, among many other things.
the key elements anchoring these hierarchies, including the
stigmatization of Black film directors as "unbankable"; the
ghettoization of Black directors for Black films only; and
the perception of Blackness among Hollywood decision-
makers. Shifting focus from questions of racial repre-
sentation to those of racial hierarchy, Erigha
investigates career trajectories, qualitative op-
portunities, access to resources, and structures
of oppression to provide a complete under-
standing of the core problem, and its
potential solutions.
The Hollywood Jim Crow delivers a
searing indictment of Hollywood's
unequal practices, drawing
connections between the
film industry and other
sites of racial oppres-
sion in society.
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