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- catalog abstract ""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 American's understanding of race. So argues Linda Williams in this 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12099963.
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations Psychological aspects.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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 American's understanding of race. So argues Linda Williams in this 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-384) and index.".
- catalog description "The American melodramatic mode -- "A wonderful, 'leaping' fish": varieties of Uncle Tom -- Anti-Tom and The birth of a nation -- Posing as black, passing as white: the melos of black and white melodrama in the Jazz age -- Rewriting the plantation legend: Scarlett "totes a weary load" -- Home sweet Africa: Alex Haley's and TV's roots -- Trials of black and white: California v. Powell and The people v. Orenthal James Simpson -- Our melodramatic racial fix.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 401 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691058008 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations Psychological aspects.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.8 21".
- catalog subject "African American men Race identity.".
- catalog subject "African Americans in mass media.".
- catalog subject "African Americans in popular culture.".
- catalog subject "E185.625 .W523 2001".
- catalog subject "Mass media and race relations United States.".
- catalog subject "Melodrama, American Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Popular culture United States Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Racism in popular culture United States.".
- catalog subject "Women, White Race identity United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The American melodramatic mode -- "A wonderful, 'leaping' fish": varieties of Uncle Tom -- Anti-Tom and The birth of a nation -- Posing as black, passing as white: the melos of black and white melodrama in the Jazz age -- Rewriting the plantation legend: Scarlett "totes a weary load" -- Home sweet Africa: Alex Haley's and TV's roots -- Trials of black and white: California v. Powell and The people v. Orenthal James Simpson -- Our melodramatic racial fix.".
- catalog title "Playing the race card : melodramas of black and white from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson / Linda Williams.".
- catalog type "text".