Elizabeth Reich

Militant Visions

Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines how, from the 1940s to the 1970s, the cinematic figure of the black soldier helped change the ways American moviegoers saw Black men, for the first time presenting African Americans as vital and integrated members of the nation. Elizabeth Reich traces the figure across a wide variety of movie genres, from action blockbusters to patriotic musicals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780813572574
• ISBN-10: 0813572576
• Artikelnr.: 44213523

Autorenporträt

ELIZABETH REICH is an assistant professor of film studies at Connecticut College in New London. She is the coeditor of Film Criticism’s special issue on “New Approaches to Cinematic Identification.”  

Inhaltsangabe

          Acknowledgments
Introduction: Historicizing and Internationalizing the “Baadasssss” or
Imagining Cinematic Reparation
Part I“We Return Fighting”: The Integration of Hollywood and the
Reconstruction of Black Representation
1      The Black Soldier and His Colonial Other
2      Resounding Blackness: Liveness and the Reprisal of Black Performance
in Stormy Weather
3      Remembering the Men: Black Audience Propaganda and the
Reconstruction of the Black Public Sphere
Part II“Fugitive Movements”: Black Resistance, Exile, and the Rise of Black
Independent Cinema
4      Psychic Seditions: Black Interiority, Black Death, and the
Mise-en-Scène of Resistance in Cold War Cinema
5      Toward a Black Transnational Cinema: Melvin Van Peebles and the
Soldier
6      The Last Black Soldier: Performing Revolution in The Spook Who Sat
by the Door
Conclusion: After Images
          Notes
          Selected Bibliography
          Index