The Poitier effect : racial melodrama and fantasies of reconciliation / Sharon Willis.

By:

Willis, Sharon

Material type:

TextPublisher: London : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]Description: x, 255 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780816692842
9780816692859

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LOC classification:

PN 2287.P57 WIL 2015

Contents:

Introduction: racial pedagogy and the magical negro -- Passing through: the obsessive sameness of Sidney Poitier -- Feminism as alibi: when white women encounter color -- The lure of retrospectatorship: hitting the false notes in Far from heaven -- Black authenticity and the ambivalent icon: keeping it real in Talk to me -- Conclusion: chasing Sidney.

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Book	Main Library On Shelf				PN 2287.P57 WIL 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below))				1	Available			33729005595645

Includes bibliographical references (223-242) and index.

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