Description: Black Male Frames : African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1, Paperback by Williams, Roland Leander, Jr., ISBN 0815630050, ISBN-13 9780815630050, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" or "the scoundrel." Starting with colonial times, Williams identifies the origins of these roles in an America where black men were forced either to defy or to defer to their white masters. These figures recur in the stories America tells about its black men, from the fictional Jim Crow and Zip Coon to historical figures such as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Williams argues that these two extremes persist today in modern Hollywood, where actors such as Sam Lucas, Paul Robeson, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, and Morgan Freeman, among others, must cope with and work around such limited options. Williams situates these actors’ performances of one or the other stereotype within each man’s personal history and within the country’s historical moment, ultimately to argue that these men are rewarded for their portrayal of the stereotypes most needed to put America’s ongoing racial anxieties at ease. Reinvigorating the discussion that began with Donald Bogle’s seminal work, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks, Black Male Frames illuminates the ways in which individuals and the media respond to the changing racial politics in America.
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Book Title: Black Male Frames : African Americans in a Century of Hollywood C
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Black Male Frames : African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Subject: Film / General, Film / History & Criticism, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Roland Leander Williams Jr.
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Television and Popular Culture Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
