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Assassination
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Cavalcade (play)
Censorship
Classical Hollywood cinema
Crime
Criticism
Culprit
Daughters of the Dust
Desperation (novel)
Dichotomy
Discrimination
Economic oppression
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Existential crisis
Falsity
Feminism
Fiction
Film
Hegemonic masculinity
Indictment
Julie London
Liberation Struggle
Masculinity
Melodrama
Miscegenation
Misogyny
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Motion Picture Association of America
Motion Picture Production Code
Opium den
Persecution
Perversion
Political statement
Pollination
Power Hungry (Fringe)
Primal scene
Production Code Administration
Publicity
Racial politics
Racism in the United States
Radical Philosophy
Resentment
Self-hatred
Sentimentality
Sex comedy
Sex differences in humans
Sexing
Sexual assault
Sexual harassment
Slasher film
Slavery
Social rejection
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Touch of Evil
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Product details
- ISBN 9780691113050
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. From the first interracial screen kiss of 1903, through the Production Code's nearly thirty-year ban on depictions of "miscegenation," to the contemplation of mixed marriage in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), this book demonstrates a long, popular, yet underexamined record of cultural fantasy at the movies. With ambitious new readings of well-known films like D.W. Griffith's 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation and of key forgotten films and censorship documents, Susan Courtney argues that dominant fantasies of miscegenation have had a profound impact on the form and content of American cinema. What does it mean, Courtney asks, that the image of the black rapist became a virtual cliche, while the sexual exploitation of black women by white men under slavery was perpetually repressed? What has this popular film legacy invited spectators to remember and forget? How has it shaped our conceptions of, and relationships to, race and gender?
Richly illustrated with more than 140 images, Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation carefully attends to cinematic detail, revising theories of identity and spectatorship as it expands critical histories of race, sex, and film. Courtney's new research on the Production Code's miscegenation clause also makes an important contribution, inviting us to consider how that clause was routinely interpreted and applied, and with what effects.
Susan Courtney is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia
