Passing and Posing between Black and White

Calibrating the Color Line in U.S. Cinema

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by Lisa Gotto

Type: Studies
Subject: Sociology
Keywords: racial issues, United States
Publishing date: 2022
Publisher: transcript publishing
Collection: Film Studies
Language: English

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Paperback • 250 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-3-8376-5337-3

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Book Presentation:
Since its inception, U.S. American cinema has grappled with the articulation of racial boundaries. This applies, in the first instance, to featuring mixed-race characters crossing the color line. In a broader sense, however, this also concerns viewing conditions and knowledge configurations. The fact that American film engages itself so extensively with the unbalanced relation between black and white is neither coincidental nor trivial to state — it has much more to do with disputing boundaries that pertain to the medium itself. Lisa Gotto examines this constellation along the early history of American film, the cinematic modernism of the late 1950s, and the post-classical cinema of the turn of the millennium.

About the Author:
Lisa Gotto Lisa Gotto is Professor of Film Theory at the University of Vienna. Her research spans the fields of digital media culture, film studies, game studies, and comparative media studies.

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