Subject Librarian
Lucinda M. Hall
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Other library resource(s)
Masculinity in film from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199791286In film studies as in other disciplines and in cultures at large, masculinity remains a contested category, tied not only to dominant social values but also to marginal groups and practices, somehow understood as monolithic and stable but always multiple and fluctuating. Formative work on masculinity in film and cultural studies has sought both to establish the patterns involved in cinematic representation of men (usually adult men, and often with classical Hollywood cinema as the area of study) and also to disentangle cultural categories of masculinity and femininity from biological categories of male and female. ...- Race and cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199791286Because of the influence that American cinema has had on ideas of race globally, both as film representations and as sociocultural concerns, and in keeping with the large output of its film industry and of American academic writing on issues of race in film studies, American films and film studies will form the central focus of this examination. Because the black/white binary defines the history of US racial discourse, this bibliography will centralize this binary and consider other racial groups (under terms constructed according to American discourse, using “black” as an umbrella term) in relation to black/white screen politics. ...
- Women and film from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199791286“Women and Film” encompasses numerous issues in academic film studies, including the histories of female practitioners in the industry; the works they produced; female audiences; female critics, historians, archivists, and theorists; and the portrayals of women on the movie screen. In the early years of cinema, women played a significant role in filmmaking (e.g., the director Lois Weber and the scenarist Frances Marion in the United States), but these individuals were soon forgotten as the industry became male dominated.
Internet resource(s)
- Asian American Justice Center
Under their Media Diversity section, the Center publishes report cards and reports on how diverse the television networks are. Included in this section is the report Asian Pacific Americans in Prime Time: Lights, Cameras and Little Action. - Hollywood Diversity Report from UCLAThe reports primarily examine the relationship between diversity and the bottom line in the entertainment industry.
- NAACP Image AwardsSpanning 60 categories, the NAACP Image Awards celebrates outstanding achievements of people of color in the arts—television, music, literature, and film—and also honors individuals and groups who promote social justice through creative endeavors.
- NAACP Media DiversityThe NAACP has fought against negative portrayals of people of color in film and television since Birth of A Nation in 1915. Today the NAACP Hollywood Bureau deals with issues of diversity programming and minority employment in Hollywood, and oversees the production of the NAACP Image Awards.
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