This collection of essays looks at how films in the last few years have reflected and juxtaposed the ascent of Barack Obama and his administration. The films examined here include The Help, Django Unchained, Lincoln, The Mist, Invictus, Black Dynamite, and The Great Gatsby.
This collection of essays looks at how films in the last few years have reflected and juxtaposed the ascent of Barack Obama and his administration. The films examined here include The Help, Django Unchained, Lincoln, The Mist, Invictus, Black Dynamite, and The Great Gatsby.
David Garrett Izzo is professor of English at Shaw University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Bruce Springsteen and the American Soul (2011) and Huxley's Brave New World: Essays (2008).
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Introduction David Garrett Izzo Part I: Resonance from the Past: Experience Is Learned Backward But Must Be Lived Forward Chapter 1 - "I Really Need a Maid!" White Womanhood in The Help Kwakiutl L. Dreher Chapter 2 - Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville and Tate Taylor's Jackson: "Art hurts. Art urges voyages-and it is easier to stay at home." Blake G. Hobby Chapter 3 - If Django and Lincoln Could Talk: James Baldwin Goes to the Movies Robert McParland Chapter 4 - The Exceptional N*gger: Redefining African American Identity in Django Unchained Rodney M. D. Fierce Chapter 5 - Blaxploitation in the Age of Obama: Black Dynamite, Django Unchained, Racial Reasoning, and Racial Capitalism Brian E. Butler Chapter 6 - Between The Butler and Black Dynamite: Servility, Militancy, and the Meaning of Blaxploitation Andrew Grossman Chapter 7 - Rednecks, Racism, and Religion: King and Darabont's Precarious Prophecy of Obama's Coming Victoria McCollum Part II: The Present Is an Eternal Now Connecting Past and Future Chapter 8 - "I Am Trayvon Martin": Obama and the Black Male in Cinema Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Alisha Saiyed Chapter 9 - Invictus: South Africa as a Post-racial Fantasy in the Age of Obama Sohinee Roy Chapter 10 - "Mama, I Think I Broke Something": Thinking about the Environment in Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild Irina Negrea Chapter 11 - It's Not a Wonderful Life: The Financial Crisis on Film and the Limits of Hollywood Liberalism Peter Grosvenor Chapter 12 - Reimagining Barack Obama as Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's Film Adaptation of The Great Gatsby Cammie Sublette Part III: The Present Imagines the Future Chapter 13 - The Hunger Games, Race, and Social Class in Obama's America Sonya C. Brown Chapter 14 - Rise of the Planet of the People: Contradictions and Revolution in Rise of the Planet of the Apes doug morris Part IV: The 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave Chapter 15 - "Under the Floorboards of This Nation": Trauma, Representation, and the Stain of History in 12 Years a Slave Ed Cameron and Linda Belau Chapter 16 - 162 Years after 12 Years a Slave: A Viewing through Double-Consciousness Salvador Murguia Chapter 17 - Revoking the Privilege of Forgetting: White Supremacy Interrogated in 12 Years a Slave David M. Jones Chapter 18 - No, You Can't: Passive Protagonists in The Blind Side, Django Unchained, and 12 Years a Slave Thomas Britt Index About the Editor and Contributors
Introduction David Garrett Izzo Part I: Resonance from the Past: Experience Is Learned Backward But Must Be Lived Forward Chapter 1 - "I Really Need a Maid!" White Womanhood in The Help Kwakiutl L. Dreher Chapter 2 - Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville and Tate Taylor's Jackson: "Art hurts. Art urges voyages-and it is easier to stay at home." Blake G. Hobby Chapter 3 - If Django and Lincoln Could Talk: James Baldwin Goes to the Movies Robert McParland Chapter 4 - The Exceptional N*gger: Redefining African American Identity in Django Unchained Rodney M. D. Fierce Chapter 5 - Blaxploitation in the Age of Obama: Black Dynamite, Django Unchained, Racial Reasoning, and Racial Capitalism Brian E. Butler Chapter 6 - Between The Butler and Black Dynamite: Servility, Militancy, and the Meaning of Blaxploitation Andrew Grossman Chapter 7 - Rednecks, Racism, and Religion: King and Darabont's Precarious Prophecy of Obama's Coming Victoria McCollum Part II: The Present Is an Eternal Now Connecting Past and Future Chapter 8 - "I Am Trayvon Martin": Obama and the Black Male in Cinema Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Alisha Saiyed Chapter 9 - Invictus: South Africa as a Post-racial Fantasy in the Age of Obama Sohinee Roy Chapter 10 - "Mama, I Think I Broke Something": Thinking about the Environment in Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild Irina Negrea Chapter 11 - It's Not a Wonderful Life: The Financial Crisis on Film and the Limits of Hollywood Liberalism Peter Grosvenor Chapter 12 - Reimagining Barack Obama as Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's Film Adaptation of The Great Gatsby Cammie Sublette Part III: The Present Imagines the Future Chapter 13 - The Hunger Games, Race, and Social Class in Obama's America Sonya C. Brown Chapter 14 - Rise of the Planet of the People: Contradictions and Revolution in Rise of the Planet of the Apes doug morris Part IV: The 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave Chapter 15 - "Under the Floorboards of This Nation": Trauma, Representation, and the Stain of History in 12 Years a Slave Ed Cameron and Linda Belau Chapter 16 - 162 Years after 12 Years a Slave: A Viewing through Double-Consciousness Salvador Murguia Chapter 17 - Revoking the Privilege of Forgetting: White Supremacy Interrogated in 12 Years a Slave David M. Jones Chapter 18 - No, You Can't: Passive Protagonists in The Blind Side, Django Unchained, and 12 Years a Slave Thomas Britt Index About the Editor and Contributors
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