The cinema and its shadow : race and technology in early cinema / Alice Maurice.
Focusing on American cinema, this title argues that race has defined and supplemented the cinematic apparatus since the earliest motion pictures, and especially at times of transition and technological vulnerability. In particular, the book explores how racialised bodies and the rhetoric of race dif...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : embodying cinema
- Performing body, performing image : race and the boundaries of early cinematic narrative
- Face, race, and screen : close-ups and the transition to the feature film
- Recasting shadows : race, image, and audience
- "Cinema at its source" : synchronizing race and sound in the early talkies
- Conclusion : red, white, and blue : digital cinema, race, and avatar.