Projecting Ethnicity and Race - (Bibliographies and Indexes in Ethnic Studies) Annotated (Hardcover)

About the Book

This comprehensive annotated bibliography reviews nearly 500 English-language studies published between 1915 and 2001 that examine the depiction of ethnic, racial, and national groups as portrayed in United States feature films from the inception of cinema through the present. Coverage includes books, reference works, book chapters within larger works, and individual essays from collections and anthologies. Concise annotations provide content summaries; unique features; major films and filmmakers discussed; and useful information on related titles, purpose, and intended readership. The studies included range from specialized scholarly treatises to popular illustrated books for general readers, making ^IProjecting Ethnicity and Race^R an invaluable resource for researchers interested in ethnic and racial film imagery.

Entries are arranged alphabetically by title for easy access, while four separate indexes make the work simple to navigate by author, subject, gender, race, ethnic group, nationality, country, religion, film title, filmmaker, performer, or theme. Although the majority of studies published examine images of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians in film, the volume contains studies of groups including Africans, Arabs, the British, Canadians, South Sea Islanders, Tibetans, Buddhists, and Muslims--making it a unique reference book with a wide range of uses for a wide range of scholars.

Book Synopsis

This comprehensive annotated bibliography reviews nearly 500 English-language studies published between 1915 and 2001 that examine the depiction of ethnic, racial, and national groups as portrayed in United States feature films from the inception of cinema through the present. Coverage includes books, reference works, book chapters within larger works, and individual essays from collections and anthologies. Concise annotations provide content summaries; unique features; major films and filmmakers discussed; and useful information on related titles, purpose, and intended readership. The studies included range from specialized scholarly treatises to popular illustrated books for general readers, making ^IProjecting Ethnicity and Race^R an invaluable resource for researchers interested in ethnic and racial film imagery.

Entries are arranged alphabetically by title for easy access, while four separate indexes make the work simple to navigate by author, subject, gender, race, ethnic group, nationality, country, religion, film title, filmmaker, performer, or theme. Although the majority of studies published examine images of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians in film, the volume contains studies of groups including Africans, Arabs, the British, Canadians, South Sea Islanders, Tibetans, Buddhists, and Muslims--making it a unique reference book with a wide range of uses for a wide range of scholars.

Review Quotes

?[t]his is a reference book that will be invaluable to research in a wide range of disciplines.?-College & Research Libraries

?Hamilton and Block provide a comprehensive annotated bibliography that examines the portrayal of ethnic minorities in American feature films from the industry's inception in 1896 to the present....A gold mine for graduate students and scholars seeking research on the regression and progression of ethnic imagery in American film. Highly recommended. Graduate students and faculty.?-Choice

"Ýt¨his is a reference book that will be invaluable to research in a wide range of disciplines."-College & Research Libraries

"[t]his is a reference book that will be invaluable to research in a wide range of disciplines."-College & Research Libraries

"Hamilton and Block provide a comprehensive annotated bibliography that examines the portrayal of ethnic minorities in American feature films from the industry's inception in 1896 to the present....A gold mine for graduate students and scholars seeking research on the regression and progression of ethnic imagery in American film. Highly recommended. Graduate students and faculty."-Choice

About the Author

MARSHA J. HAMILTON is Associate Professor and Head of the Monographs Department at the Ohio State University Libraries. She is the author of The Middle East and North Africa on Film: An Annotated Filmography.

ELEANOR S. BLOCK is head of the Journalism Library at the Ohio State University, Columbus. She is the co-author, with James K. Bracken, of Communication and the Mass Media: A Guide to the Reference Literature and is also co-founder of the Mass Communication Bibliographers Group of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, she currently serves as Religion and Media Editor of Communication Booknotes Quarterly.