{"product_id":"9781461642862","title":"Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness","description":"\u003ci\u003eScreen Saviors\u003c\/i\u003e studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood movies—by white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another color.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collaboration by a sociologist and a film critic, using the new perspective of critical \"white studies,\" offers a bold and sweeping critique of almost a century's worth of American film, from \u003ci\u003eBirth of Nation\u003c\/i\u003e (1915) through \u003ci\u003eBlack Hawk Down\u003c\/i\u003e (2001). \u003ci\u003eScreen Saviors\u003c\/i\u003e studies the way in which the social relations that we call \"race\" are fictionalized and pictured in the movies. It argues that films are part of broader projects that lead us to ignore or deny the nature of the racial divide in which Americans live. Even as the images of racial and ethnic minorities change across the twentieth century, Hollywood keeps portraying the ideal white American self as good-looking, powerful, brave, cordial, kind, firm, and generous: a natural-born leader worthy of the loyalty of those of another color. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book invites readers to conduct their own analyses of films by showing how this can be done in over 50 Hollywood movies. Among these are some films about the Civil War—\u003ci\u003eBirth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGlory\u003c\/i\u003e; some about white messiahs who rescue people of another color—\u003ci\u003eStargate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMississippi Burning\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThree Kings\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e; the three versions of \u003ci\u003eMutiny on the Bounty\u003c\/i\u003e (1935, 1962, and 1984) and interracial romance—\u003ci\u003eGuess Who's Coming to Dinner\u003c\/i\u003e. Forty years of Hollywood fantasies of interracial harmony, from \u003ci\u003eThe Defiant Ones\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn the Heat of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e through the \u003ci\u003eLethal Weapon\u003c\/i\u003e series and \u003ci\u003eMen in Black\u003c\/i\u003e are examined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work in the sociology of knowledge and cultural studies relates the movies of Hollywood to the large political agendas on race relation in the United States. \u003ci\u003eScreen Saviors\u003c\/i\u003e appeals to the general reader interested in the movies or in race and ethnicity as well as to students of com","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155507855600,"sku":"9781461642862","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781461642862_p0.jpg?v=1769889560","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781461642862","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}