{"id":4741,"date":"2010-01-26T03:51:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T03:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2013-09-02T17:52:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T17:52:22","slug":"mixed-race-hollywood-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4741","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race Hollywood (review) [Emily D. Edwards]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed Race Hollywood (review) [Emily D. Edwards]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Journal of Film and Video<\/a>
\nVolume 61, Number 4 (Winter 2009)
\nE-ISSN: 1934-6018
\nPrint ISSN: 0742-4671
\nDOI: 10.1353\/jfv.0.0051<\/p>\n

Emily D. Edwards<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Broadcasting and Cinema
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Greensboro<\/em><\/p>\n

Mixed Race Hollywood<\/a><\/em> is a collection of essays that could not be timelier. As popular media, journalists, and citizen bloggers actively dispute the impact of President Barack Obama<\/a>\u2019s election on attitudes toward race, editors Mary\u00a0Beltr\u00e1n<\/a> and Camilla Fojas<\/a> have compiled a series of essays that explore ways popular media and celebrity have presented miscegenation and racial identity for Americans. These historical and critical essays analyze specific films, television programs, Internet sites, and the appearance of celebrity image to help explain the ways popular media presentations of race correspond with the development of social behaviors and attitudes. Though some might credit \u201cliberal Hollywood<\/a>\u201d for ushering America into the \u201cmulatto<\/a> millennium,\u201d it is obvious from the collection of essays in this book that Hollywood is not always the leader of public opinion but often takes the more conservative approach, lagging behind fairly widespread social attitudes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The editors divide the book into four sections: themes of mixed race representation, miscegenation<\/a> and romance, genre and mixed race characters, and finally, a section that examines the shift in media presentation of mixed race characters from tragic to heroic. The introduction by\u00a0Beltr\u00e1n and Fojas helps set the background and the overall argument that media presentations reveal a cultural shift in American attitudes toward mixed race characters. The introduction also provides some useful notes on terminology.<\/p>\n

The essays begin, appropriately, with J. E. Smyth<\/a>\u2019s chapter, \u201cClassical Hollywood and the Filmic Writing of Interracial History, 1931\u20131939.\u201d This chapter examines films such as Cimarron<\/a><\/em> (1931), Ramona<\/a><\/em> (1936), Show Boat<\/a><\/em> (1936), Jezebel<\/a><\/em> (1938)…<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mixed Race Hollywood (review) [Emily D. Edwards] Journal of Film and Video Volume 61, Number 4 (Winter 2009) E-ISSN: 1934-6018 Print ISSN: 0742-4671 DOI: 10.1353\/jfv.0.0051 Emily D. Edwards, Professor of Broadcasting and Cinema University of North Carolina, Greensboro Mixed Race Hollywood is a collection of essays that could not be timelier. As popular media, journalists, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,5,8,20],"tags":[847,1907,1904,1906,1910,1905,1903,846,1908,1909],"class_list":["post-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-camilla-fojas","tag-cimarron","tag-emily-d-edwards","tag-j-e-smyth","tag-jezebel","tag-journal-of-film-and-video","tag-mary-beltran","tag-mary-c-beltran","tag-ramona","tag-show-boat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}