Reading Race : Hollywood and the Cinema of Racial Violence

by Norman K Denzin

• ISBN13: 9780803975446
• ISBN10: 0803975449
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-29
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

In this insightful book, one of America's leading commentators on culture and society turns his gaze upon cinematic race relations, examining the relationship between film, race and culture. Norman K Denzin argues that the cinema, like society, treats all persons as equal but struggles to define and implement diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism. He goes on to argue that the cinema needs to honour racial and ethnic differences, in defining race in terms of both an opposition to, and acceptance of, the media's interpretations and representations of the American racial order. Acute, richly illustrated and timely, the book deepens our understanding of the politics of race and the symbolic complexity of segregation and discrimination.

Author Biography

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, Cinema Studies, and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Table of Contents

PART ONE: READING RACE

Introduction

PART ONE: READING RACE

The Cinematic Racial Order

PART TWO: RACIAL ALLEGORIES: THE WHITE HOOD

A Grand Canyon

Race, Women and Violence in the Hood

Lethal Weapons in the Hood

PART THREE: RACIAL ALLEGORIES: THE BLACK AND BROWN HOOD

Boyz N Girlz in the Hood

Zoot Suits and Homeboys (and Girls)

Spike's Place

PART FOUR: A NEW RACIAL AESTHETIC

Screening Race