Race, Philosophy, and FilmMary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Dan Flory This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would thinking in philosophy and film be transformed if race were formally incorporated moved from its margins to the center? The collection’s contributors anchor their discussions of race through considerations of specific films and television series, which serve as illustrative examples from which the essays’ theorizations are drawn. Inclusive and current in its selection of films and genres, the collection incorporates dramas, comedies, horror, and science fiction films (among other genres) into its discussions, as well as recent and popular titles of interest, such as Twilight, Avatar, Machete, True Blood, and The Matrix and The Help. The essays compel readers to think more deeply about the films they have seen and their experiences of these narratives. |
Contents
| 1958 | |
Imaginative Resistance and the White Gaze in Machete and The Help | 1975 |
Born into Bondage Teaching The Matrix and Unlearning the Racial | 1995 |
Whats So Bad about Blackface? | |
So Now Youre SwedishAmerican? JewishAmerican Women | |
Cruising through Race | |
From Progress to Complacency to Paganism | |
Racism and Prejudice on Pandora | |
Now Imagine Shes White The Gift of the Black Gaze and | |
Race asand Exchange Trading Places and the Rise of Neoliberalism | |
Hardly Black and White Racial and Sexual Stereotypes in Manderlay | |
the Frog | |
Vampires Technology and Racism The Vampiric Image in Twilight | |
Desperate Black Female Sex and Race in Monsters Ball | |
Contributors | |