Black children in Hollywood cinema : cast in shadow /: cast in shadow. ([2017])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Black children in Hollywood cinema : cast in shadow /: cast in shadow. ([2017])
- Main Title:
- Black children in Hollywood cinema : cast in shadow
- Further Information:
- Note: Debbie Olson.
- Authors:
- Olson, Debbie C, 1961-
- Contents:
- Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Notes; Chapter 2: Establishing the Discourse of the Child; US Childhoods; Children and Non-children in the Popular Imagination; Innocence and Modern Visualization of Black Children; Childhood Spaces and Race; The Black Child Image in Modern Popular Culture; Black Children in American Film Scholarship; The Black Child in American Film; Notes; Chapter 3: African American Girls in Hollywood Cinema; Mammy and Jezebel; Monstrous Mammies in Lee Daniels' Precious; Pickaninnies of the Southern Wild. "Just Some Black Girl's" Butter; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: Boys in Black and the Urban Ghetto Child; Black Boys and the Discourse of Crime; Blaxploitation Films and the New Negro Child; The Reimagined African (American) Savage; Fresh and the New (Old) "Baad Nigga"; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: Soldier Bo(d)y: The Transnational Circulation of the African (American) Savage Child Image; African Childhood in Hollywood; Invisible Children and the Cinematic Reach of the White Savior; The White (African) Perspective; Black ChildSoldiers in Black Savage Bodies; Conclusion; Notes. Chapter 6: The Black Child Star; Jaden Smith and the Transnational Black Child Star; Jaden in the Jungle; Towards a Black Child Hero?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Select Filmography; Index.
- Publisher Details:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations
- Subjects:
- 791.43/6523
Children, Black, in art
Children in motion pictures
Blacks in motion pictures
Racism in motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Social aspects
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference
Blacks in motion pictures
Children, Black, in art
Children in motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Social aspects
Racism in motion pictures
Social Science -- General
Social Science -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies
Social Science -- Children's Studies
Social Science -- Media Studies
Cultural studies
Media studies
African Americans
Communication
Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General
Films, cinema
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319482736
3319482734 - Related ISBNs:
- 9783319482729
3319482726 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 29, 2017). - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.357041
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- 01_318.xml