Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness

by Daniel Bernardi

Book Overview

Leading scholars address the myriad ways in which America's attitudes about race informed the production of Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1960s. From the predominantly white star system to segregated mise-en-scènes, Hollywood films reinforced institutionalized racism. The contributors to this volume examine how assumptions about white superiority and colored inferiority and the politics of segregation and assimilation affected Hollywood's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816632391
• ISBN13: 9780816632398
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"