Black magic : White Hollywood and African American culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gabbard, Krin
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004]
Subjects:	African Americans in motion pictures. Jazz in motion pictures. Motion pictures > United States. Motion pictures and music. Motion picture music > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Black magic, disembodied. Marlon Brando's jazz acting and the obsolescence of blackface ; Borrowing Black masculinity: Dirty Harry finds his gentle side ; Passing tones: The talented Mr. Ripley and Pleasantville
Serving the white audience. The racial displacements of Ransom and Fargo ; Black angels in America : millennial solutions to the "race problem"
Unrepresentable subjects. Evidence : Thelonious Monk's challenge to jazz history ; Revenge of the Nerds : representing the White male collector of Black music
Black magic, inverted. Robert Altman's jazz history lesson ; Spike Lee meets Aaron Copland.