Do the movies have a future? / David Denby. by Denby, David, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Mumblecore -- Terrence Malick's insufferable masterpiece -- Rise of the planet of the apes.…”

Movies in the Age of Obama : the Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema. by Izzo, David Garrett

Table of Contents: “…." -- If Django and Lincoln Could Talk: James Baldwin Goes to the Movies -- The Exceptional N*gger: Redefining African American Identity in Django Unchained -- Blaxploitation in the Age of Obama: Black Dynamite, Django Unchained, Racial Reasoning, and Racial Capitalism -- Between The Butler and Black Dynamite : Servility, Militancy, and the Meaning of Blaxploitation -- Rednecks, Racism, and Religion: King and Darabont's Precarious Prophecy of Obama's Coming -- The Present Is an Eternal Now Connecting Past and Future -- "I Am Trayvon Martin": Obama and the Black Male in Cinema -- Invictus : South Africa as a Post-racial Fantasy in the Age of Obama -- "Mama, I Think I Broke Something": Thinking about the Environment in Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild -- It's Not a Wonderful Life: The Financial Crisis on Film and the Limits of Hollywood Liberalism -- Reimagining Barack Obama as Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's Film Adaptation of The Great Gatsby -- The Present Imagines the Future -- The Hunger Games, Race, and Social Class in Obama's America -- Rise of the Planet of the People: Contradictions and Revolution in Rise of the Planet of the Apes -- 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave -- "Under the Floorboards of This Nation": Trauma, Representation, and the Stain of History in 12 Years a Slave -- 162 Years after 12 Years a Slave : A Viewing through Double-Consciousness -- Revoking the Privilege of Forgetting: White Supremacy Interrogated in 12 Years a Slave.…”
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