? Susan Courtney, Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005)
? Jane M. Gaines, Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
? Daniel Bernardi, The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 1996). Selections.
?Primary Sources and Articles:?Available on Classfronter,or the internet, or handed out in class.
? Garth S. Jowett, “’A Capacity for Evil’: the 1915 Supreme Court Mutual Decision,” in Matthew Bernstein, ed., Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era
? “’Controversy Has Probably Destroyed Forever the Context’: The Miracle and Movie Censorship in America in the 1950s,” in Matthew Bernstein, ed., Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era
? “Fighting a Vicious Film: Protest Against The Birth of a Nation” http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/fighting_vicious.cfm
? Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio (1915) http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/mutual_film.cfm
? Film Censorship documents http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_censorship.cfm
? The Miracle Decision http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/miracle_decision.cfm
? Ratings System, 1968 http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/rating_system.cfm
? Class handouts
Theory and Reference (on Classfronter and the Internet):
? Monaco, “The Language of Film: Signs and Syntax,” and “Film”: Politics section of “The Shape of Film History in How To Read a Film
? Hollow and Jancovich, Approaches to Popular Film, Chapters 1 and 8
? John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, 4th ed. Chap 4
? David Gauntlett, Media, Gender, and Identity: an Introduction, chapter 7
? Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman, “Doing Gender,” Gender and Society 1:2 (June 1987) 125-151.
? Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory,”
? www.imdb.com
? http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/reference_works.cfm
?Primary Source Movies: for common viewing:? Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner ? Pinky
?Additional movies for common viewing, to be chosen from the following:? Island in the Sun ? Patch of Blue ? Jungle Fever ? Mandingo ? The Bitter Tea of General Yen ? Broken Blossoms ? Sayonara ? Birth of a Nation
Individual choice of movie(s) for research: Must be approved (as early in the semester as possible). I can recommend titles based on the student’s interest. You can also use www.imdb.com keywords to get suggestions. You should then check with www.amazon.com and www.play.com for availability.