{"product_id":"militant-visions-black-soldiers-internationalism-and-the-transformation-of-american-cinema-paperback-softback-9780813572574","title":"Militant Visions; Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813572574","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMilitant Visions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlack Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth Reich (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813572574\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 August 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e286 pages, 7 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 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\"Reich's book is always informed, and its value is enhanced by 32 pages of footnotes and 6 pages of bibliography … Recommended.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"In this revelatory revisionist history of twentieth-century American film, Reich demonstrates that the figure of the black soldier has served as a lightning rod for a welter of national anxieties around race, masculinity, and allegiance.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Brent Hayes Edwards (author of The Practice of Diaspora) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMilitant Visions\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging and welcome contribution to a vibrant field of emerging scholarship on African American film and media.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Kara Keeling (author of The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMilitant Visions\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers a crucial, previously hidden dimension of American filmmaking, and of African American film spectatorship and response, showing how cinematic representations of black masculinity from the Forties to the Seventies contributed to the larger social movement for black emancipation.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMilitant Visions\u003c\/i\u003e 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. In the process, Elizabeth Reich reveals how the image of the proud and powerful African American serviceman was crafted by an unexpected alliance of government propagandists, civil rights activists, and black filmmakers. Contextualizing the figure in a genealogy of black radicalism and internationalism, Reich shows the evolving images of black soldiers to be inherently transnational ones, shaped by the displacements of diaspora, Third World revolutionary philosophy, and a legacy of black artistry and performance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Offering a nuanced reading of a figure that was simultaneously conservative and radical, Reich considers how the cinematic black soldier lent a human face to ongoing debates about racial integration, black internationalism, and American militarism. \u003ci\u003eMilitant Visions\u003c\/i\u003e thus not only presents a new history of how American cinema represented race, but also demonstrates how film images helped to make history, shaping the progress of the civil rights movement itself.\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\n\u003cdiv\u003e          Acknowledgments\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction: Historicizing and Internationalizing the “\u003cbr\u003eBaadasssss”\u003cbr\u003e or Imagining Cinematic Reparation\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I“\u003cbr\u003eWe Return Fighting”\u003cbr\u003e: The Integration of Hollywood and the Reconstruction of Black Representation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1      The Black Soldier and His Colonial Other\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2      Resounding Blackness: Liveness and the Reprisal of Black Performance in \u003ci\u003eStormy Weather\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3      Remembering the Men: Black Audience Propaganda and the Reconstruction of the Black Public Sphere\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II“\u003cbr\u003eFugitive Movements”\u003cbr\u003e: Black Resistance, Exile, and the Rise of Black Independent Cinema\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4      Psychic Seditions: Black Interiority, Black Death, and the Mise-en-ScÈ\u003cbr\u003ene of Resistance in Cold War Cinema\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5      Toward a Black Transnational Cinema: Melvin Van Peebles and the Soldier\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6      The Last Black Soldier: Performing Revolution in \u003ci\u003eThe Spook Who Sat by the Door\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eConclusion: After Images\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e          Notes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e          Selected Bibliography\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e          Index\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\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":52742620807448,"sku":"9780813572574","price":25.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/militant-visions-black-soldiers-internationalism-and-the-transformation-of-american-cinema-paperback-softback-9780813572574","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}