Schleier Race and the Suburbs in American Film

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8448-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schleier, Merrill

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Passing Through: The Black Maid in the Cinematic Suburbs, 1948–1949
John David Rhodes

2. Take a Giant Step: Racialized Spatial Ruptures in the Northern Cinematic Suburbs
Merrill Schleier

3. "Where Have You Been?": Bill Gunn's Suburban Nightmares
Ellen C. Scott

4. The House They Live In: Charles Burnett, Indie Hollywood, and the Politics of Black Suburbia
Joshua Glick

5. "Guess Who Doesn't Belong Here?": The Interracial Couple in Suburban Cinema
Timotheus Vermeulen

6. Alienated Subjects: Suburban Failure and Aspiration in Asian American Film
Helen Heran Jun

7. Inhabiting the Suburban Film: Arab American Narratives of Spatial Insecurity
Amy Lynn Corbin

8. Living in Liberty City: Triangulating Space and Identity in Barry Jenkins's Moonlight (2016)
Paula J. Massood

9. Geographies of Racism: American Suburbs as Palimpsest Spaces in Get Out (2017)
Elizabeth A. Patton

10. The Limits and Possibilities of Suburban Iconoclasm: Suburbicon and 99 Homes
Nathan Holmes

11. "A Perfectly Normal Life?": Suburban Space, Automobility, and Ideological Whiteness in Love, Simon
Angel Daniel Matos

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Merrill Schleier is Professor Emeritus of Art and Architectural History and Film Studies at the University of the Pacific. They are the author of Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film.