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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Eithne Quinn is professor of cultural and socio-legal studies at the University of Manchester. She is author of Nuthin’ but a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap (Columbia, 2004), and her research focuses on injustice and racialization in the cultural industries and legal system. Klappentext Eithne Quinn reveals how Hollywood catalyzed racial politics in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, 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, this book examines the limits of Hollywood liberalism. Zusammenfassung Eithne Quinn reveals how Hollywood catalyzed racial politics in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, 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, this book examines the limits of Hollywood liberalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
