{"product_id":"cinema-civil-rights-regulation-repression-and-race-in-the-classical-hollywood-era-paperback-softback-9780813571355","title":"Cinema Civil Rights; Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813571355","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCinema Civil Rights\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRegulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEllen C. Scott (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813571355\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 January 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages, 30 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"An original and insightful contribution to the scholarly literature on the history of Hollywood representations of African Americans.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Film Criticism) \u003cdiv\u003e\"The contribution that Scott makes to African American film history with \u003ci\u003eCinema Civil Rights\u003c\/i\u003e is sizeable, but it is her sense of purpose rather than her exhaustive research that makes the book essential.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Cercles) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This well-written, meticulously researched, and forcefully argued study explores the repression of civil rights on the American screen and the struggle of African American activists to find civil rights among the cinematic images that ignored 'the Black need for freedom.'\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Valerie A. Smith (Princeton University) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Ellen C. Scott has written an authoritative, compelling, wide-ranging and always illuminating history of the institutionally-based politics of racial representation in the classical studio era. A truly essential volume.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Matthew H. Bernstein (editor of Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Ellen C. Scott's deeply researched study of film censorship and Black film protests reveals that deep anxieties, rather than stereotypical certainties, structure representations of Blackness in classical Hollywood cinema.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Jacqueline Stewart (author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrom Al Jolson in blackface to Song of the South, there is a long history of racism in Hollywood film. Yet as early as the 1930s, movie studios carefully vetted their releases, removing racially offensive language like the “N-word.” This censorship did not stem from purely humanitarian concerns, but rather from worries about boycotts from civil rights groups and loss of revenue from African American filmgoers.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eCinema Civil Rights\u003c\/i\u003e presents the untold history of how Black audiences, activists, and lobbyists influenced the representation of race in Hollywood in the decades before the 1960s civil rights era. Employing a nuanced analysis of power, Ellen C. Scott reveals how these representations were shaped by a complex set of negotiations between various individuals and organizations. Rather than simply recounting the perspective of film studios, she calls our attention to a variety of other influential institutions, from protest groups to state censorship boards.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eScott demonstrates not only how civil rights debates helped shaped the movies, but also how the movies themselves provided a vital public forum for addressing taboo subjects like interracial sexuality, segregation, and lynching. Emotionally gripping, theoretically sophisticated, and meticulously researched, \u003ci\u003eCinema Civil Rights\u003c\/i\u003e presents us with an in-depth look at the film industry’s role in both articulating and censoring the national conversation on race.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Regulating Race, Structuring Absence: Industry Self-Censorship and African American Representability\u003cbr\u003e 2. State Censorship and the Color Line\u003cbr\u003e 3. Racial Trauma, Civil Rights, and the Brutal Imagination of Darryl F. Zanuck\u003cbr\u003e 4. Shadowboxing: Black Interpretive Activism in the Classical Hollywood Era\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739277750552,"sku":"9780813571355","price":27.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/cinema-civil-rights-regulation-repression-and-race-in-the-classical-hollywood-era-paperback-softback-9780813571355","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}