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Olson, Debbie.

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Cast in shadow: The black child in Hollywood cinema.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cast in shadow: The black child in Hollywood cinema./
Author:	Olson, Debbie.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	264 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-01A(E).
Subject:	Film studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10140548
ISBN:	9781339959450

Cast in shadow: The black child in Hollywood cinema.
Olson, Debbie.

Cast in shadow: The black child in Hollywood cinema. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 264 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 2015.

This study will explore cultural conceptions of the child and flesh out the connections between historical imagery and beliefs about Africans and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film. The condition of childhood is perpetually constructed and reconstructed within popular imagery from a predominantly Western model, leaving little room for the representation of other modes of real or imagined childhoods. Within the discourse of children's studies and film scholarship in relation to the conception of "the child," there is often little to no distinction among children by race---the "child" is most often discussed as a universal entity, as the embodiment of all things not adult, not (sexually) corrupt. Discussions about children of color among scholars often take place within contexts such as crime, drugs, urbanization, poverty, or lack of education that tend to reinforce historically stereotypical beliefs about African Americans. Part of my inquiry is to examine the significance of the image of the black child to the current social construction of childhood. How does the image of the black child affirm or subvert popular notions of childhood in contemporary US society? For instance, do prevalent black "gangsta" images help inform cultural notions about black children? Does the historical image of the African child inform notions about the African-American child? I will look at historical conceptions of childhood within scholarly discourse, the child character in popular film and what space the black child (both African and African American) occupies within that ideal. In that way, I will show how the cinematic absence of the black child continues the discourse of racial exclusion while at the same time contextualizing white childhood as the norm. I will then present case studies that interrogate how Hollywood visually defines those spaces for the black child; for instance, what interpretive fracture is visible in the Hunger Games fans' racist articulations about who is worthy of innocence, even in death? I will further argue that the transnational circulation of the black child image informs, constructs, and mediates popular conceptions of black childhood in contemporary Hollywood cinema.

ISBN: 9781339959450Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122736
Film studies.

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