Behind the screen: tap dance, race, and invisibility during Hollywood's golden age

How and why was outdated racial content - and specifically blackface minstrelsy - not only permitted, but in fact allowed to thrive during the 1930s and 1940s despite the rigid motion picture censorship laws which were enforced during this time? Introducing a new theory of covert minstrelsy, this bo...

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1. Verfasser: Shiovitz, Brynn W. ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2023
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Zusammenfassung:How and why was outdated racial content - and specifically blackface minstrelsy - not only permitted, but in fact allowed to thrive during the 1930s and 1940s despite the rigid motion picture censorship laws which were enforced during this time? Introducing a new theory of covert minstrelsy, this book illuminates Hollywood's practice of capitalizing on the Africanist aesthetic at the expense of Black lived experience
Beschreibung:Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN:9780197553138
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197553091.001.0001

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