Behind the screen : tap dance, race, and invisibility during Hollywood's golden age /
Introducing a new theory of covert minstrelsy this book illumines Hollywood's practice of capitalizing on the Africanist aesthetic at the expense of Black lived experience. Behind the Screen: Tap Dance, Race, and Invisibility During Hollywood's Golden Age looks at how and why outdated raci...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Masks in Disguise
- Integrating the Screen : Sound Synchronization, Sonic Guises, and Pre-Code Blackface, 1927-1930
- Sing-along : "Dinah," a Fleischer Screen Song
- Optical Illusion and Design : Exposure Values, Protean Guises, and Eddie Cantor's Blackface, 1930-1933
- Cartoon short : The Three Little Pigs, an excerpted Walt Disney Silly Symphony
- Public Works and Accolades : Race Film, Southern Repossession, and the Rise of Bill Robinson, 1929-1935
- Dance break : "Have You Got Any Castles," Featuring Buck and Bubbles
- Bon Homage : Female Figures, the Tribute Guise, and Pre-War Departures, 1934-1939
- Travel ad : Skirting Censorship : Brownface and Technology in Transit
- With a Glory Be : The Gabriel Variation, Jazz, and Everything In-Between, 1934-1942
- War bond ad : "Any Bonds Today?" Produced in Cooperation with Warner Bros, and U.S. Treasury Dept. Defense Savings Staff
- Hays Is for Horses : Cartoons' Crossover Appeal, Dis-figuration, and the Animated Bestiary, 1934-1942
- Coda : Enlisting the Tropes : Covert Minstrelsy in Action, 1942-1954
- Appendix : Excerpts from the Production Code (1934-1954).