James Snead
White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side.
Routledge, 1994. Edited by Colin MacCabe & Cornel West. 0415905745  153 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new, with two small ink markings on page 2.
This work "offers an array of film texts, drawn from both classical Hollywood cinema and black independent film culture. Individual chapters analyze "Birth of a Nation," "King Kong" and its sequels, Shirley Temple in "The Littlest Rebel" and "The Little Colonel," Mae West in "I'm No Angel," Marlene Dietrich in "Blonde Venus," Bette Davis in "Jezebel," and the racism of Disney's "Song of the South." Making skillful use of developments in both structuralist and post-structuralist film theory, Snead's work speaks not only to the centrality of race in Hollywood films, but to its centrality in the formation of modern American culture."