Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Regulating Race, Structuring Absence: Industry Self-Censorship and African American Representability
2. State Censorship and the Color Line
3. Racial Trauma, Civil Rights, and the Brutal Imagination of Darryl F. Zanuck
4. Shadowboxing: Black Interpretive Activism in the Classical Hollywood Era
Conclusion
Notes
Index

About the Author

ELLEN C. SCOTT is an assistant professor of media studies at Queens College–City University of New York. 

Reviews

"An original and insightful contribution to the scholarly literature on the history of Hollywood representations of African Americans." (Film Criticism) "The contribution that Scott makes to African American film history with Cinema Civil Rights is sizeable, but it is her sense of purpose rather than her exhaustive research that makes the book essential." (Cercles) "This well-written, meticulously researched, and forcefully argued study explores the repression of civil rights on the American screen and the struggle of African American activists to find civil rights among the cinematic images that ignored 'the Black need for freedom.'" - Valerie A. Smith (Princeton University) "Ellen C. Scott has written an authoritative, compelling, wide-ranging and always illuminating history of the institutionally-based politics of racial representation in the classical studio era. A truly essential volume." - Matthew H. Bernstein (editor of Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era) "Ellen C. Scott's deeply researched study of film censorship and Black film protests reveals that deep anxieties, rather than stereotypical certainties, structure representations of Blackness in classical Hollywood cinema." - Jacqueline Stewart (author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity)