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Linda Williams

Playing the Race Card

Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson

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The black man suffering at the hands of whites, the white woman sexually threatened by the black man. Both images have long been burned into the American conscience through popular entertainment, and today they exert a powerful and disturbing influence on Americans' understanding of race. So argues Linda Williams in this boldly inquisitive book, where she probes the bitterly divisive racial sentiments aroused by such recent events as O. J. Simpson's criminal trial. Williams, the author of Hard Core, explores how these images took root, beginning with melodramatic theater, where suffering characters acquire virtue through victimization. The r… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-10283-2
  • EAN: 9780691102832
  • Produktnummer: 9876921
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
  • Seitenangabe: 420 S.
  • Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.5 cm 603 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 603

Über den Autor


Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Film Studies Program. She is the author of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible and Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film. Her edited volumes include Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film and, with Christine Gledhill, Reinventing Film Studies.

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