Hollywood fantasies of miscegenation
Subtitle: spectacular narratives of gender and race, 1903-1967
By: Susan Courtney.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Miscegenation in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-364) and index.
Table of contents: title: What happened in the tunnel and other open American secrets; title: The "agony" of spectatorship at Biograph; title: The mixed birth of "great white" masculinity and the classical spectator; title: "The un-doable stories," the "usual answers," and other "epidermic drama[s]": coming to terms with the production code; title: Picturizing race: on visibility, racial knowledge, and cinematic belief; title: Out of the plantation and into the suburbs: sensational extremes in the late 1950s; title: Guess who's coming to dinner with Eldridge Cleaver and the Supreme Court, or Reforming popular racial memory with Hepburn and Tracy.