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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Minstrelsy"”.
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Representations of blackface and minstrelsy in twenty-first century popular culture
Blackface minstrelsy just ain’t what it used to be. This statement should not be understood as a call for the return of the minstrel show. Quite literally, minstrelsy and its central feature blackface manifest themselves in divergent ways from their nineteenth and twentieth century manifestations, …
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Bending Family Friendly into Fear: Nostalgia, Minstrelsy and Horror in Bendy and the Ink Machine
<p>When one thinks of Disney’s Mickey Mouse, fear and horror are not terms normally associated with this iconic American cartoon character; however, the video game Bendy and the Ink Machine turns animated bodies (cartoons) into bodies the player fears. In this game family friendly cartoon …
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The minstrelising discourse of 21st century rap music
… the 19th centuryentertainment form of blackface minstrelsy with varying motives and effects. Moreover,it is communicated via various media; from music videos to films, from literature toverbal discourse. This modern phenomenon requires analysis that considers thehistorical context of blackface …
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"Modern Primitive: Parody, Ambivalence, and Paradox in Paul Colin's Le Tumulte Noir"
… people of African American descent, for example minstrelsy vs. New Negro imagery, this thesis uses several methods for investigating the ambivalence of the artwork and the culture in which it was produced. The double-coding of meaning presented by parody, calligrams, and self-division are central …
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Beyond gangsta: hip-hop, web culture and racial masking in the musical work of Tyler, The Creator
… masculinity. From chattel slavery to blackface minstrelsy, the African diasporic experience in the West is marked by a series of stigmas, contradictions and dichotomies evidenced in the challenge of being black in a white world. This duplicity denounced and analyzed by scholars such as W.E.B. …
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The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, and the Movies, 1928 - 1973
… in the next century inherited those ideas from minstrelsy and vaudeville, and applied new stereotypes like urban settings and violence that they thought typified the behavior of all Catholics. Catholics responded by creating the Legion of Decency and paying more attention to film content …
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American pseudo-realism: the subversion of black agency in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1935)
… historical narrative vis-à-vis blackface minstrelsy and black folk music. The aim of this study is not to prescribe definitive answers to the problematics of racial representation in opera, but rather to open meaningful discourse regarding contextual specificity, socio-cultural …
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"""Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"": The Citizen-Soldier and the Construction of Identity in Northern Civil War Literature"
… cultural groups reminiscent of blackface minstrelsy as described by Eric Lott. In the desire to recover a sense of autonomy, soldier-authors reconceived minorities, particularly African-Americans, women, and Irish immigrants, from Others into symbols of a pre-industrial order characterized …
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The Odyssey of African American Women in Films: From the Silent Era to the Post-War Years to the 1950s
… American actresses. My thesis begins with minstrelsy and vaudeville because of its influence on creating negative stereotypical roles in films. The thesis then focuses on the film period of silent era through the post-war period, up to the 1950s in classic Hollywood, and discusses …
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Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
… Michael North’s exploration of the influence of minstrelsy and regionalism on the development of modernist literary technique in The Dialect of Modernism. As he focuses on writers from the early 20th century, I account for the next generation, whose America was not a culturally inferior …
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Troupers: Essays in Three Rings
Troupers: Essays in Three Rings is a collection of fourteen essays focused mainly on variety entertainers (including the author). It leads the reader through a menagerie of the author's own enthusiasms--from clowning and circus elephants, to hot jazz and the ukulele. While the primary occupation of …