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1. Theories of Race and Representation 1
Categorizing the Other: Stereotypes and Stereotyping
by Charles Ramírez Berg 3
2. Identity and the Birth of Cinema 21
The Voice of Whiteness: D. W. Griffith’s Biograph Films
(1908—1913) by Daniel Bernardi 23
Broken Blossoms: Artful Racism, Artful Rape by Julia Lesage 37
3. Anthropological Visions in Documentary Film 51
Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North: The Politics
of Taxidermy and Romantic Ethnography by Fatimah Tobing Rony 53
The Imperial Imaginary by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam 71
4. Hollywood’s Latin America in the 1930s 91
Dolores del Río, Uncomfortably Real:
The Economics of Race in Hollywood’s Latin American
Musicals by Joanne Hershfield 93
The Demands of Authenticity: Addison Durland
and Hollywood’s Latin Images during World War II by Brian O’Neil 104
5. Gender, Melodrama and Hollywood in the 1930s 121
Is the Gaze Male? by E. Ann Kaplan 123
Angel, Venus, Jezebel: Race and the Female Star
in Three Thirties Films by James Snead 133
6. Hollywood’s Jewish Question in the 1940s 139
“Democracy and Burnt Cork”: The End of Blackface,
the Beginning of Civil Rights by Michael Rogin 141
Midtown Jewish Masculinity in Body and Soul
by Aaron Baker 163
7. Miscegenation and Post-WII Hollywood 171
Imitation(s) of Life: The Black Woman’s Double Determination
as Troubling “Other” by Sandy Flitterman-Lewis 173
“What’s the Matter with Sara Jane?”: Daughters and Mothers in
Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life by Marina Heung 181
8. Masculinity, Whiteness and the 1950s Westerns 197
Imagery in Literature, Art, and Philosophy: The Indian in
White Imagination and Ideology by Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. 199
The Margin As Center: The Multicultural Dynamics of
John Ford’s Westerns by Charles Ramírez Berg 231
9. Interracial Buddies and Lovers in the 1960s 249
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner with Eldridge Cleaver
and the Supreme Court, or reforming popular
racial memory with Hepburn and Tracy by Susan Courtney 251
Racism as a Project: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
by Hernán Vera and Andrew M. Gordon 273
10. Whitesploitation(?) in the 1970s 285
Genre Anxiety and Racial Representation in 1970s Cinema
by George Lipsitz 287
The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation by Ed Guerrero 300
11. Black Masculinity in the 1980s 325
Reconstructing Black Masculinity by bell hooks 327
Post-Soul Comedy Goes to the Movies: Cinematic Adjustments
and [Pop] Cultural Currency by Bambi Haggins 343
12. Gender Crisis in the 1990s 367
“Waiting to Exhale” or “Breath(ing) Again”: A Search for
Identity, Empowerment, and Love in the 1990’s
by Tina M. Harris and Patricia S. Hill 369
“Chick Flicks” as Feminist Texts: The Appropriation of the
Male Gaze in Thelma & Louise by Brenda Cooper 385
13. Latina Stars in the 1990s and Today 405
Framing Jennifer Lopez: Mobilizing Race from the Wide
Shot to the Close-Up by Priscilla Peña Ovalle 407
Jennifer’s Butt by Frances Negrón-Muntaner 423
14. Arabs in Today’s Hollywood 431
Introduction to Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood
Vilifies a People by Jack G. Shaheen 433
A Whole New (Disney) World Order: Aladdin,
Atomic Power and the Muslim Middle East by Alan Nadel 459
15. Interracial Hollywood Today 471
“I’m Blackanese”: Buddy-Cop Films, Rush Hour,
and Asian American and African American
Cross-Racial Identification by LeiLani Nishime 473
Romeo Must Die: Interracial Romance in Action
by Gina Marchetti 486
Index 497