Movies in the age of Obama : the era of post racial and neo-racist cinema /
Izzo, David Garrett,editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / David Garrett Izzo -- Part I. Resonance from the past: experience is learned backward but must be lived forward -- 1. "I really need a maid!": white womanhood in 'The help' / Kwakiutl L. Dreher -- 2. Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville and Tate Taylor's Jackson: "Art hurts: art urges voyages--and it is easier to stay at home" / Blake G. Hobby -- 3. If Django and Lincoln could talk: James Baldwin goes to the movies / Robert McParland -- 4. The exceptional n*gger: redefining African-American identity in 'Django unchained' / Rodney M.D. Fierce -- 5. Blaxploitation in the age of Obama: 'Black dynamite,' 'Django unchained,' racial reasoning, and racial capitalism / Brian E Butler -- 6. Between 'The butler' and 'Black dynamite': servility, militancy, and the meaning of blaxploitation / Andrew Grossman -- 7. Rednecks, racism, and religion: King and Darabont's precarious prophecy of Obama's coming / Victoria McCollum -- Part II. The present is an eternal now connecting past and future -- 8. "I am Trayvon Martin": Obama and the black male in cinema / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Alisha Saiyed -- 9. 'Invictus': South Africa as a post-racial fantasy in the age of Obama / Sohinee Roy -- 10. "Mama, I think I broke something": thinking about the environment in Benh Zeitlin's 'Beasts of the southern wild' / Irina Negrea -- 11. It's not a wonderful life: the financial crisis on film and the limits of Hollywood liberalism / Peter Grosvenor -- 12. Reimagining Barack Obama as Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of 'The great Gatsby' / Cammie Sublette -- Part III. The present imagines the future -- 13. 'The hunger games,' race, and social class in Obama's America / Sonya C. Brown -- 14. Rise of the planet of the people: contradictions and revolution in 'Rise of the planet of the apes' / doug morris -- Part IV. The 2013 Academy Award for best picture: '12 years a slave' -- 15. "Under the floorboards of this nation": trauma, representation, and the stain of history in '12 years a slave' / Ed Cameron and Linda Belau -- 16. 162 years after '12 years a slave': a viewing through double-consciousness / Salvador Murgia -- 17. Revoking the privilege of forgetting: white supremacy interrogated in '12 years a slave' / David M. Jones -- 18. No, you can't: passive protagonists in 'The blind side,' 'Django unchained,' and '12 years a slave' / Thomas Britt.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Racism in motion pictures.
Motion pictures