Movies in the age of Obama : the era of post racial and neo-racist cinema /
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / David Garrett Izzo
- Resonance from the past: experience is learned backwards, but must be lived forwards. "I really need a maid!": white womanhood in The help / Kwakiutl L. Dreher
- Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville and Tate Taylor's Jackson:รก
- Art hurts: art urges voyages and it is easier to stay at home / Blake Hobby
- If Django and Lincoln could talk: James Baldwin goes to the movies / Robert McParland
- The exceptional n*gger: redefining African-American identity in Django unchained / Rodney Marcel Fierce
- Blaxploitation film: from Black dynamite to Django unchained / Brian E Butler
- Between The butler and Black dynamite: servility, militancy, and the meaning of blaxploitation / Andrew Grossman
- Rednecks, racism & religion; the white, the black & the mist: 'King & Darabont's precarious prophecy of Obama's coming / Victoria McCollum
- The present is an eternal now connecting past and future. "I am Trayvon Martin": Obama and the black male in cinema / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Alisha Saiyed
- South Africa as a metaphor for US racial dreams and fears in Invictus / Sohinee Roy
- "Mama, I think I broke something": thinking about the environment in Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern wild / Irina Negrea
- It's not a wonderful life: the financial crisis on film, and the limits of Hollywood liberalism / Peter C. Grosvenor
- Reimagining Gatsby as black or white in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The great Gatsby / Cammie Sublette
- The present imagines the future. The hunger games, race, and social class / Sonya Brown
- Rise of The planet of the people: resistance and revolution / Doug Morris
- The 2013 Academy Award for best picture: 12 years a slave. "Under the floorboards of this nation": trauma representation, and the stain of history in 12 years a slave / Ed Cameron and Linda Belau
- 162 years after 12 years a slave: a viewing through double-consciousness / Salvador Murgia
- "Revoking the privilege of forgetting": white supremacy Interrogated in 12 years a slave / David M. Jones
- No, you can't: passive protagonists in The blind side, Django unchained, and 12 years a slave / Thomas Garrett.