Introduction / David Garrett Izzo -- Resonance from the past: experience is learned backwards, but must be lived forwards. "I really need a maid!": white womanhood in The help / Kwakiutl L. Dreher -- Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville and Tate Taylor's Jackson:á -- Art hurts: art urges voyages and it is easier to stay at home / Blake Hobby -- If Django and Lincoln could talk: James Baldwin goes to the movies / Robert McParland -- The exceptional n*gger: redefining African-American identity in Django unchained / Rodney Marcel Fierce -- Blaxploitation film: from Black dynamite to Django unchained / Brian E Butler -- Between The butler and Black dynamite: servility, militancy, and the meaning of blaxploitation / Andrew Grossman -- Rednecks, racism & religion; the white, the black & the mist: 'King & Darabont's precarious prophecy of Obama's coming / Victoria McCollum -- The present is an eternal now connecting past and future. "I am Trayvon Martin": Obama and the black male in cinema / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Alisha Saiyed -- South Africa as a metaphor for US racial dreams and fears in Invictus / Sohinee Roy -- "Mama, I think I broke something": thinking about the environment in Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern wild / Irina Negrea -- It's not a wonderful life: the financial crisis on film, and the limits of Hollywood liberalism / Peter C. Grosvenor -- Reimagining Gatsby as black or white in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The great Gatsby / Cammie Sublette -- The present imagines the future. The hunger games, race, and social class / Sonya Brown -- Rise of The planet of the people: resistance and revolution / Doug Morris -- The 2013 Academy Award for best picture: 12 years a slave. "Under the floorboards of this nation": trauma representation, and the stain of history in 12 years a slave / Ed Cameron and Linda Belau -- 162 years after 12 years a slave: a viewing through double-consciousness / Salvador Murgia -- "Revoking the privilege of forgetting": white supremacy Interrogated in 12 years a slave / David M. Jones -- No, you can't: passive protagonists in The blind side, Django unchained, and 12 years a slave / Thomas Garrett.
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