Willis, Sharon <br/><br/>
The Poitier effect :  racial melodrama and fantasies of reconciliation / 
Sharon Willis. 
 - x, 255 pages  
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (223-242) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780816692842  9780816692859  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014040584 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Poitier, Sidney--Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans in motion pictures.<br/>Race in motion pictures.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 2287.P57  /  WIL 2015