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100 1  Erigha, Maryann,|eauthor. 
245 14 The Hollywood Jim Crow :|bthe racial politics of the movie
       industry /|cMaryann Erigha. 
264  1 New York :|bNew York University Press,|c[2019] 
300    vii, 225 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-214) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction: race matters in Hollywood -- Representation 
       and racial hierarchy -- Labeling Black unbankable -- 
       Directing on the margins -- Making genre ghettos -- 
       Manufacturing racial stigma -- Remaking cinema -- 
       Conclusion: Hollywood's racial politics. 
520 8  The story of racial hierarchy in the American film 
       industry. The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of 
       the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other 
       things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn't believe 
       that Denzel Washington could "open" a western genre film, 
       provide glaring evidence that the opportunities for people
       of color in Hollywood are limited. In The Hollywood Jim 
       Crow, Maryann Erigha tells the story of inequality, 
       looking at the practices and biases that limit the 
       production and circulation of movies directed by racial 
       minorities. She examines over 1,300 contemporary films, 
       specifically focusing on directors, to show the key 
       elements at work in maintaining "the Hollywood Jim Crow." 
       Unlike the Jim Crow era where ideas about innate racial 
       inferiority and superiority were the grounds for 
       segregation, Hollywood's version tries to use economic and
       cultural explanations to justify the underrepresentation 
       and stigmatization of Black filmmakers. Erigha exposes the
       key elements at work in maintaining Hollywood's racial 
       hierarchy, namely the relationship between genre and race,
       the ghettoization of Black directors to black films, and 
       how Blackness is perceived by the Hollywood producers and 
       studios who decide what gets made and who gets to make it.
       Erigha questions the notion that increased representation 
       of African Americans behind the camera is the sole answer 
       to the racial inequality gap. Instead, she suggests 
       focusing on the obstacles to integration for African 
       American film directors. Hollywood movies have an 
       expansive reach and exert tremendous power in the national
       and global production, distribution, and exhibition of 
       popular culture. The Hollywood Jim Crow fully dissects the
       racial inequality embedded in this industry, looking at 
       alternative ways for African Americans to find success in 
       Hollywood and suggesting how they can band together to 
       forge their own career paths. 
650  0 African American motion picture producers and directors. 
650  0 African Americans in the motion picture industry. 
650  0 Motion pictures|zUnited States|xSocal aspects|xHistory. 
650  7 African American motion picture producers and directors.
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650  7 African Americans in the motion picture industry.|2fast
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650  7 PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.|2bisacsh
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 History.|2fast 
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