Militant Visions
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-7257-4 (ISBN)
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Militant Visions 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.
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. Militant Visions 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.
ELIZABETH REICH is an assistant professor of film studies at Connecticut College in New London. She is the coeditor of Film Criticism’s special issue on “New Approaches to Cinematic Identification.”
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Historicizing and Internationalizing the “Baadasssss” or Imagining Cinematic ReparationPart I“We Return Fighting”: The Integration of Hollywood and the Reconstruction of Black Representation1 The Black Soldier and His Colonial Other2 Resounding Blackness: Liveness and the Reprisal of Black Performance in Stormy Weather3 Remembering the Men: Black Audience Propaganda and the Reconstruction of the Black Public SpherePart II“Fugitive Movements”: Black Resistance, Exile, and the Rise of Black Independent Cinema4 Psychic Seditions: Black Interiority, Black Death, and the Mise-en-Scène of Resistance in Cold War Cinema5 Toward a Black Transnational Cinema: Melvin Van Peebles and the Soldier6 The Last Black Soldier: Performing Revolution in The Spook Who Sat by the DoorConclusion: After Images Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 7 photographs |
Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 399 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8135-7257-6 / 0813572576 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-7257-4 / 9780813572574 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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