Overview
- Analyzes the ways that racial and ethnic representations in Hollywood films have both challenged and supported a colorblind ideology during the Obama and Trump eras
- Addresses dominant theories of critical race studies within contemporary American cinema
- Combines close readings with industrial and political methods
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Colorblindness
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Colorblind Racism in Hollywood Films
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Intersections Between Race, Ethnicity, and Gender and Colorblind Racism in Hollywood
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sarah Nilsen is an Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, USA. She is the author of Projecting America: Film and Cultural Diplomacy at the Brussels World’s Fair of 1958 (2011) and co-editor of The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America (2014). Other publications include essays on critical race theory, Disney studies, and Cold War culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Myth of Colorblindness
Book Subtitle: Race and Ethnicity in American Cinema
Editors: Sarah E. Turner, Sarah Nilsen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17447-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17446-0Published: 09 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17449-1Published: 09 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17447-7Published: 28 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 304
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: American Cinema and TV, American Culture, Ethnicity Studies, Film/TV Industry, Popular Culture , Culture and Gender