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A piece of the actionrace and labor in post-civil rights Hollywood /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A piece of the actionEithne Quinn.
Reminder of title:	race and labor in post-civil rights Hollywood /
Author:	Quinn, Eithne,
Published:	New York, NY :Columbia University Press,c2020.
Description:	1 online resource :ill.
Subject:	African Americans in motion pictures.
Online resource:	http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231551014
ISBN:	9780231551014$q(electronic bk.)

A piece of the actionrace and labor in post-civil rights Hollywood /
Quinn, Eithne,1971-

A piece of the actionrace and labor in post-civil rights Hollywood /[electronic resource] :Eithne Quinn. - 1st ed. - New York, NY :Columbia University Press,c2020. - 1 online resource :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frontmatter --

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.

In English.

ISBN: 9780231551014$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.7312/quin16436doi

LCCN: 2019023881Subjects--Topical Terms:

240562
African Americans in motion pictures.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.N4 / Q54 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/652996073

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