Introduction: Hollywood's war on Black America / Ishmael Reed -- Part one: Django revisited. Django: Where you been? / Amiri Baraka ; The duality of violence in Django / J. Douglas Allen-Taylor ; Innocent plantation seductions: Quentin Tarantino's Django unchained / Houston Baker, Jr. ; "Whup, the Motherfucker!" / Herb Boyd ; Hollywood's nigger joke: Tarantino's Django unchained / Cecil Brown ; Django unchained: Hollywood recreates history, again / Ruth Elizabeth Burks ; Django unchained: A historical analysis / Art T ; Tarantino enchained / Stanley Crouch ; Tarantino's plantation / Justin Desmangles ; Never a dull movie: Django explained / Jack Foley ; Django unchained and the black man sitting behind me at the movie theatre / Joyce A. Joyce ; Last tango with Django (or as they say in the hood: Django may be unchained, but your ass ain't) / Tony Medina ; The big payback: Black love, vengeance, and Django unchained / Jill Nelson ; Damsel in distress: Django unchained as revenge fantasy / Halifu Osumare ; Why I needed to see a black woman spit in a pot! / Heather D. Russell ; Racial profiling in Hollywood: Black images and cultural transformation / Kathryn Waddell Takara ; America's soul unchained / Jerry W. Ward, Jr. ; Marvin X reviews Django / Marvin X -- Relinking Django / Al Young. Part two: Comments on Hollywood and film. Nowhere to run ... nowhere to hide: Young black men trapped in the crossfire / Playthell G. Benjamin ; How Hollywood portrays Italian-Americans / Lawrence Distasi ; Selma: The film and actualities / David Henderson ; Too many chiefs and not enough Indians: Native Americans in recent television programming / Geary Hobson ; Sankofa: Film as cultural memory / Haki P. Madhubuti ; Who or what does The Help help?: A brief review / C. Liegh McInnnis ; The other Hollywood / Alejandro Murguia ; Save your precious time and money, don't see Precious / Hariette Surovell.
Summary:
A group of scholars, critics, intellectuals, and artists examine and respond to the contemporary portrayals of Blacks in films. Using the 2012 release of the film Django Unchained as the focal point of much of the discussion, these essays and reviews provide a critical perspective on the challenges facing filmmakers and actors when confronted with issues on race and the historical portrayal of African American characters. Reed also addresses the black community's perceptiveness as discerning and responsible consumers of film, theatre, art, and music.
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