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Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003 (Television and Popular Culture)
Roland Leander Williams Jr.
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Description for Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003 (Television and Popular Culture)
Hardcover. Series: Television and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFN; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: “the shaman” and “thescoundrel.” Starting with colonial times, Williams identifies the origins of these roles in an America where black men were forced either to defy or to defer to their white masters. These figures recur in the stories America tells about its black men, from the fictional Jim Crow and Zip Coon to historical figures such as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Williams argues that these two extremes persist today in modern Hollywood, where actors such ... Read more
Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: “the shaman” and “thescoundrel.” Starting with colonial times, Williams identifies the origins of these roles in an America where black men were forced either to defy or to defer to their white masters. These figures recur in the stories America tells about its black men, from the fictional Jim Crow and Zip Coon to historical figures such as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Williams argues that these two extremes persist today in modern Hollywood, where actors such ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Television and Popular Culture
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815633822
SKU
V9780815633822
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About Roland Leander Williams Jr.
Roland Leander Williams Jr. is associate professor in the Department of English at Temple University. He is the author of African American Autobiography and the Quest for Freedom.
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