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- Book Title
- A Piece of the Action
- Publication Name
- Piece of the Action : Race and Labor in Post-Civil Rights Hollywood
- Title
- A Piece of the Action
- EAN
- 9780231164375
- ISBN
- 9780231164375
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 2019
- Release Date
- 31/12/2019
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood
- ISBN-10
- 0231164378
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- Films & TV
- Subject
- Film / General, Civil Rights, Film / History & Criticism, African American
- Subject Area
- History, Performing Arts, Political Science
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 15.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Hollywood is often thought of--and certainly by Hollywood itself--as a progressive haven. However, in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the film industry grew deeply conservative when it came to conflicts over racial justice. Amid black self-assertion and white backlash, many of the most heated struggles in film were fought over employment. In A Piece of the Action , Eithne Quinn reveals how Hollywood catalyzed wider racial politics, through representation on screen as well as in battles over jobs and resources behind the scenes. Based on extensive archival research and detailed discussions of films like In the Heat of the Night , Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song , Super Fly , Claudine , and Blue Collar , this volume considers how issues of race and labor played out on the screen during the tumultuous early years of affirmative action. Quinn charts how black actors leveraged their performance capital to force meaningful changes to employment and film content. She examines the emergence of Sidney Poitier and other African Americans as A-list stars; the careers of black filmmakers such as Melvin Van Peebles and Ossie Davis; and attempts by the federal government and black advocacy groups to integrate cinema. Quinn also highlights the limits of Hollywood's liberalism, showing how predominantly white filmmakers, executives, and unions hid the persistence of racism behind feel-good stories and public-relations avowals of tolerance. A rigorous analysis of the deeply rooted patterns of racial exclusion in American cinema, A Piece of the Action sheds light on why conservative and corporate responses to antiracist and labor activism remain pervasive in today's Hollywood.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231164378
ISBN-13
9780231164375
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038299429
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Piece of the Action : Race and Labor in Post-Civil Rights Hollywood
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Film / General, Civil Rights, Film / History & Criticism, African American
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Performing Arts, Political Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2019-023881
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.N4q54 2019
Reviews
Quinn offers a revelatory account of resistance and reaction unfolding in Hollywood between In the Heat of the Night (1967) and Blue Collar (1978). She chronicles black creatives struggling to get black experiences on screen and black labor on the set. Powerful and richly insightful, A Piece of the Action details black filmmakers and their white allies attempting to counter liberal tokenism and colorblindness only to come up against the industry's neoconservative retreat from racial and economic justice., A Piece of the Action is a story about the interconnections between white privilege, "colorblind" ideology, and Hollywood business-as-usual practices. With a historian's nose for detail, Quinn reveals in sharp relief how an industry filled with self-proclaimed white progressives manages to reproduce--to this very day--its infamous legacy of racial exclusion and marginalization. This book is a must-read for anyone hoping to make sense of Hollywood's integral role in the shaping of American racial politics., Quinn's conclusion provides the reader with two prescient, convincing, and well-earned macroscopic takeaways., Quinn offers a revelatory account of resistance and reaction unfolding in Hollywood between In the Heat of the Night (1967) and Blue Collar (1978). She chronicles black creatives struggling to get black experiences on screen and black labor on the set. Powerful and richly insightful, A Piece of the Action details black filmmakers' and their white allies' attempts to counter liberal tokenism and colorblindness only to come up against the industry's neoconservative retreat from racial and economic justice., Well-written, meticulously researched, critical, and smart, A Piece of the Action may be the most important book on black American cinema in the last quarter century. Enjoyable and highly informative, this book will quickly emerge as a classic and must-read among those interested in film history, black cinema, race and popular culture, and the sociology of culture.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "The Screen Speaks for Itself": Institutional Discrimination and the Dawning of Hollywood Postracialism 2. Racializing the Hollywood Renaissance: Black and White Symbol Creators in a Time of Crisis 3. Challenging Jim Crow Crews: Federal Activism and Industry Reaction 4. "Getting the Man's Foot out of Our Collective Asses": Black Left Film Producers and the Rise of the Hustler Creative 5. Color-Blind Corporatism: The Black Film Wave and White Revival Conclusion: Race, Creative Labor, and Reflexivity in Post-Civil Rights Hollywood Notes Index
Copyright Date
2019
Dewey Decimal
791.43/652996073
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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