White And Griffith

by Kenneth White (Author)
Instructor Resources: Test bank with application-oriented multiple choice questions (new to this edition), presentation PowerPoint slides (new to this edition), PowerPoint slides of all the book’s exhibits, and instructor notes for the book’s Practice Applications section

The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture.

Stanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, Elisha Cook Jr., and Marie Windsor, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony, it’s Kubrick to the core.

Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film.