Brynn W. Shiovitz (Lecturer in Dance, Lecturer in Dance, Chapman Un

Behind the Screen

Tap Dance, Race, and Invisibility During Hollywood's Golden Age

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How and why was outdated racial content - and specifically blackface minstrelsy - not only permitted, but in fact allowed to thrive during the 1930s and 1940s despite the rigid motion picture censorship laws which were enforced during this time? Introducing a new theory of covert minstrelsy, this book illuminates Hollywood's practice of capitalizing on the Africanist aesthetic at the expense of Black lived experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780197553107
• ISBN-10: 0197553109
• Artikelnr.: 66999482

Autorenporträt

Brynn Wein Shiovitz is Lecturer in the Department of Dance at Chapman University and the editor of The Body, the Dance, and the Text: Essays on Performance and the Margins of History.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Note on Language
* Preface
* Covert Minstrelsy: a Diagram
* Introduction: Masks in Disguise
* 1. Integrating the Screen: Sound Synchronization, Sonic Guises, and
Pre-Code Blackface, 1927-1930
* sing-along: "Dinah," a Fleischer Screen Song
* 2. Optical Illusion and Design: Exposure Values, Protean Guises, and
Eddie Cantor's Blackface 1930-1933
* cartoon short: The Three Little Pigs, an excerpted Walt Disney Silly
Symphony
* 3. Public Works and Accolades: Race Film, Southern Repossession, and
the Rise of Bill Robinson, 1929-1935
* dance break: "Have You Got Any Castles," Featuring Buck and Bubbles
* 4. Bon Homage: Female Figures, the Tribute Guise, and Pre-War
Departures, 1934-1939
* travel ad: Skirting Censorship: Brownface and Technology in Transit
* 5. With a Glory Be: The Gabriel Variation, Jazz, and Everything in
Between, 1934-1942
* war bond ad: "Any Bonds Today?" Produced in Cooperation with Warner
Bros. and U.S. Treasury Dept. Defense Savings Staff
* 6. Hays is for Horses: Cartoons' Crossover Appeal, Dis-figuration,
and the Animated Bestiary 1934-1942
* Coda. Enlisting the Tropes: Covert Minstrelsy in Action, 1942-1954
* Appendix: Excerpts from the Production Code (1934-1954)
* Index