Visible and Invisible Whiteness: American White Supremacy Through the Cinematic Lens

by Alice Mikal Craven

Book Overview

Visible and Invisible Whiteness examines the complicity between Classical Hollywood narratives or genres and representations of white supremacy in the cinema. Close readings of D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation by James Agee and James Baldwin explore these authors' perspectives on the American mythologies which ground Griffith's film. The intersectionality of Bordwell's theories on Classical Hollywood Narrative versus Art...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030082857
• ISBN13: 9783030082857
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"