Moving Texts: A Hermeneutics of the Gospel According to Hollywood
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DOI: 10.1017/s0017816018000160
Abstract: Abstract The Hollywood Jesus epics re-visualize the gospel story against the anxious backdrops of secularization, cultural pluralism, and moral skepticism. While these epics are often derided for their lack of theological insight, cultural awareness, or… read more here.
Keywords: hollywood; hermeneutics gospel; texts hermeneutics; gospel according ... See more keywords
On the margins: black directors and the persistence of racial inequality in twenty-first century Hollywood
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DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2017.1281984
Abstract: ABSTRACT Decades after the Civil Rights era, scholars maintain that enduring racial inequality remains entrenched throughout the film industry even as Hollywood grows more racially diverse. This study takes a close look at the predicament… read more here.
Keywords: black directors; hollywood; twenty first; first century ... See more keywords
On the Origin of White Hollywood: The Racialized Space of the U.S. Film Industry
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DOI: 10.1177/0002764220975085
Abstract: The scholarship on White spaces has highlighted the ways in which institutions have devoted themselves to reproducing Whiteness through intentional ideological work, and how the prevalence of such ideologies impact the individuals within these spaces.… read more here.
Keywords: film industry; origin white; white hollywood; hollywood ... See more keywords
Exemplary Directors, European Imports, and the Changing Valuation of Films in Hollywood, 1961–1980
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DOI: 10.1177/17499755211070137
Abstract: This article utilizes a novel empirical strategy, the study of exemplars, to investigate the transformation of quality conventions in the film industry during the 1960s and 1970s. Exemplars are films or directors which are used… read more here.
Keywords: changing valuation; hollywood; european imports; directors european ... See more keywords
Nancy Wang Yuen, Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2016, 224 p.
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DOI: 10.4000/sdt.1932
Abstract: Abordant une question a laquelle la mobilisation « OscarSoWhite » a recemment donne une visibilite accrue, Nancy Wang Yuen presente, dans Reel Inequality, les resultats de son travail de doctorat sur le « racisme d’Hollywood ». A partir d’une… read more here.
Keywords: nancy wang; reel inequality; wang yuen; hollywood ... See more keywords