The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation 9780816692842

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Автор: Sharon Willis
Название: The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation
ISBN: 9780816692842
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Классификация:

Общие вопросы искусства

Электронные виды изобразительного искусства

Актёры, исполнители, артисты

Кино, кинематография

История Америк

Социальная история и история культуры

Исследования азиатских и африканских этнических групп

Исследования латиноамериканских этнических групп

Политика и политический строй

ISBN-10: 081669284X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.42 кг.
Дата издания: 01.03.2015
Серия: Arts
Язык: English
Размер: 21.59 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: The arts: general issues,Electronic, holographic & video art,History of the Americas,Social & cultural history,Hispanic & Latino studies, ART / General,ART / Film & Video,HISTORY / United States / General,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American
Подзаголовок: Racial melodrama and fantasies of reconciliation
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The civil rights struggle was convulsing the nation, its violence broadcast into every living room. Against this fraught background, Sidney Poitier emerged as an image of dignity, discipline, and moral authority. Here was the picture-perfect black man, helping German nuns build a chapel in The Lilies of the Field and overcoming the prejudices of recalcitrant students in To Sir with Love, a redneck sheriff in In the Heat of the Night, and a prospective father-in-law in Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner. In his characters\u2019 restrained responses to white people\u2019s ignorance and bad behavior, Poitier represented racial reconciliation and reciprocal respect—the \u201cPoitier effect\u201d that Sharon Willis traces through cinema and television from the civil rights era to our own.The Poitier effect, in Willis\u2019s account, is a function of white wishful thinking about race relations. It represents a dream of achieving racial reconciliation and equality without any substantive change to the white world. This notion of change without change conforms smoothly with a fantasy of colorblindness, a culture in which difference makes no difference. Willis demonstrates how Poitier\u2019s embodiment of such a fantasy figures in the popular cinema of the civil rights era—and reasserts itself in recent melodramas such as The Long Walk Home, Pleasantville, Far from Heaven, and The Help. From change without change to change we can believe in, her book reveals how the Poitier effect, complicated by contemporary ideas about feminism, sexuality, and privilege, continues to inform our collective memory as well as our visions of a postracial society.

The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation, Sharon Willis