- Title
- "Draggin' the chain": linking civil rights and African-American representation in 'The Defiant Ones' and 'In the Heat of the Night'
- Creator
- Hamilton, Emma; Saxby, Troy
- Relation
- Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering the Black Icon in the Obama Age p. 73-96
- Relation
- http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/poitier-revisited-9781623569235/
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Traditionally, scholarly interest surrounding African American representation has focused overwhelmingly on the notion of stereotype. In this view, the capacity of mainstream media, particularly film, to present alternative and complex depictions of African American characters is curtailed by its commercial nature, which cyclically anticipates and reenforces white audiences' hegemonic imagining of the racialized other. Thus, what remains is a disturbing continuity: an unchanged set of stereotypes, removed from lived experience and historical reality. While this critical discourse on stereotype is important and aids in cultural recovery and empowerment, including attempts at establishing "black cinema," an uncomplicated focus on stereotype has helped to further cement the homogenized meanings of these very stereotypes, and has obscured the actual processes by which such stereotypes are communicated.
- Subject
- civil rights; African Aerican representation; film; American cinema; race
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316307
- Identifier
- uon:23131
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781623564919
- Language
- eng
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