Black Hollywood
Subtitle: from butlers to superheroes, the changing role of African American men in the movies
By: Kimberly Fain
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781440831904
Subjects: Masculinity in motion pictures; African American men in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: appropriation, exploitation, and agency of black performers in Hollywood; title: Black images from Jim Crow to the McCarthy era of blacklisting. 1910s: whites in blackface and the sexually depraved black Mandingo-The birth of a nation; title: 1920s: Oscar Micheaux's response to blackface and D.W. Griffith; title: 1930s: the Hays Moral Code and Jim Crow-The emperor Jones and Gone with the wind; title: 1940s: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Lincoln "Stepin Fetchit" Perry: black servants in musicals and comedies; title: 1950s: McCarthyism and blacklisting: Canada Lee and Paul Robeson; title: Black images from the apex of the civil rights era peak into the age of Barack Obama; title: 1960s: token black actors in the civil rights age: Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte; title: 1970s: blaxploitation: preachers, pimps, pushers, and players; title: 1980s: black comedians rule: in the age of Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor; title: 1990s: gangsta rappers transcend music: Ice Cube, Ice-T, DMX, Nas, and 2pac; title: 2000s: black icons: control, agency, and self-appropriation: Spike Lee, Tyler Perry and Will Smith; title: 2010s: black power Hollywood: In the age of Obama's hope and change; title: Conclusion.