Black children in Hollywood cinema : cast in shadow /: cast in shadow. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• 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).
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