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082 0 4 _a791.43/652996073
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aErigha, Maryann
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Hollywood Jim Crow :
_bThe Racial Politics of the Movie Industry /
_cMaryann Erigha.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource :
_b17 black and white illustrations
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 _aThe story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn't believe that Denzel Washington could "open" a western genre film, provide glaring evidence that the opportunities for people of color in Hollywood are limited. In The Hollywood Jim Crow, Maryann Erigha tells the story of inequality, looking at the practices and biases that limit the production and circulation of movies directed by racial minorities. She examines over 1,300 contemporary films, specifically focusing on directors, to show the key elements at work in maintaining "the Hollywood Jim Crow." Unlike the Jim Crow era where ideas about innate racial inferiority and superiority were the grounds for segregation, Hollywood's version tries to use economic and cultural explanations to justify the underrepresentation and stigmatization of Black filmmakers. Erigha exposes the key elements at work in maintaining Hollywood's racial hierarchy, namely the relationship between genre and race, the ghettoization of Black directors to black films, and how Blackness is perceived by the Hollywood producers and studios who decide what gets made and who gets to make it. Erigha questions the notion that increased representation of African Americans behind the camera is the sole answer to the racial inequality gap. Instead, she suggests focusing on the obstacles to integration for African American film directors. Hollywood movies have an expansive reach and exert tremendous power in the national and global production, distribution, and exhibition of popular culture. The Hollywood Jim Crow fully dissects the racial inequality embedded in this industry, looking at alternative ways for African Americans to find success in Hollywood and suggesting how they can band together to forge their own career paths.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aAfrican American motion picture producers and directors.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in the motion picture industry.
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
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653 _aAfrican Americans.
653 _aBlack.
653 _aHollywood.
653 _aOscars.
653 _aW. E. B. Du Bois.
653 _aaudience.
653 _acinema.
653 _acollective.
653 _aculture.
653 _adirectors.
653 _adistribution.
653 _aeconomic.
653 _afilm.
653 _aforeign market.
653 _afranchise.
653 _agenre.
653 _aghetto.
653 _ainequality.
653 _aliberal.
653 _amedia.
653 _aproduction budgets.
653 _arace.
653 _aracial bias.
653 _aracial hierarchy.
653 _aracial minorities.
653 _aracialization.
653 _arepresentation.
653 _ascience fiction.
653 _astigma.
653 _astudios.
653 _aunbankable.
653 _aunderrepresented.
653 _auniversal.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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