Reel Racism

Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-American Culture

Vincent Rocchio

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English

Westview Press Inc
22 December 2000

Social discrimination; Ethnic studies; Anthropology; Cinema industry

Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture

goes beyond reflection theories of the media to examine cinema's active participation in the operations of racism - a complex process rooted in the dynamics of representation. Written for undergraduates and graduate students of film studies and philosophy, Reel Racism focuses on methods and frameworks that analyse films for their production of meaning and how those meanings participate in a broader process of justifying, naturalizing, or legitimizing difference, privilege, and violence based on race. In addition to analysing how the process of racism is articulated in specific films, Reel Racism examines how specific meanings can resist their function of ideological containment, and instead, offer a perspective of a more collective, egalitarian social system-

one that transcends the discourse of race.

By: Vincent Rocchio
Imprint: Westview Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9780813367101
ISBN 10: 0813367107
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 22 December 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Vincent F. Rocchio is visiting assistant professor of film studies at Dartmouth College. He has also published articles in The Spectator, Film Quarterly, and The National Catholic Reporter . He is a founding member of the Ekklesia Project and currently lives in Lawrence, MA.

Reviews for Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-American Culture

A beautiful, poetic book about an ugly time in America's South. . . . Meticulously researched, exquisitely written and piercingly poignant. -- Los Angeles Times <br> Profound. . . . Shattering [the] silence was Hendrickson's goal. Filling it with a meanful, searching record is his tremendous accomplishment. -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution <br> Hendrickson is a talented writer, with an eye for the telling detail and a comfortable voice that is both personal and lyrical in the style of a James Agee or W. J. Cash. -- Washington Post Book World <br> Ambitious. . . . Vivid. . . . Treats the civil rights revolution and resistance not as dusty history but as the best and worst of American culture. -- USA Today<br>