Screen Saviors Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness

Screen Saviors studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood movies--by white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another color. This collaboration by a sociologist and a film critic, using the new perspective

Foreword: A Nation of Sheep

vii

Joe R. Feagin

Acknowledgments

xii

Introduction

1

(4)

Learning to Be White through the Movies

5

(10)

The Divided White Self

15

(18)

The Beautiful White American: Sincere Fictions of the Savior

33

(19)

Amistad: Civilization and Its Contentments

52

(15)

Mutiny on the Bounty: Civilization and Its Discontents

67

(17)

Racism as a Project: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

84

(16)

Scarlett and Mammy Revisited: White Women and Black Women in Hollywood Films

100

(15)

White Out: Racial Masquerade by Whites in American Film I

115

(18)

White Out: Racial Masquerade by Whites in American Film II

133

(21)

Black and White Buddies I

154

(17)

Black and White Buddies II

171

(14)

Conclusion: The Crisis of Whiteness

185

(10)

Index

195

(8)

About the Authors

203

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Screen Saviors Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness

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