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

By: Willis, Sharon.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]Description: x, 255 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780816692842 ; 9780816692859 .Subject(s): Poitier, Sidney -- Criticism and interpretation | African Americans in motion pictures | Race in motion pictures
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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Includes bibliographical references (223-242) and index.

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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