| Contents |
Ally betrayal: the performance of White wokeness in Jordan Peele's Get out -- "Skin in the game": Black empowerment and White antiracist identity development in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman -- Black gazes and White women: reconfiguring the female foursome formula in Issa Rae's Insecure and Spike Lee's She's gotta have it -- Ally satire and accountability in Justin Simien's Dear White people -- Conclusion "Eating the other" in Donald Glover's Atlanta. |
| Abstract |
"This book considers the ways in which Black directors, screenwriters, and showrunners contend with the figure of the would-be White ally in contemporary film and television. White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media examines the ways in which prominent figures such as Issa Rae, Spike Lee, Justin Simien, Jordan Peele, and Donald Glover centralize complex Black protagonists in their work while also training a Black gaze on would-be White allies. Emily R. Rutter highlights how these Black creators represent both performative White allyship and the potential for true White antiracist allyship, while also examining the reasons why Black creators utilize the white ally trope in the wider context of the film and television industries. During an era in which concerns with White liberal complicity in anti-Black racism are of paramount importance, Rutter explores how these films and televisions shows, and their creators, contribute to the wider project of dismantling internal, interpersonal, ideological, and institutional White hegemony. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Film and Media Studies, Television Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, and Popular Culture"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Biographical note | Emily Ruth Rutter is Associate Dean of the Honors College and Associate Professor of English at Ball State University. She is author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry, and Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists. She is co-editor of Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era. Her scholarship appears in African American Review, MELUS, and Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, among other journals and edited collections. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2023). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Rutter, Emily Ruth. White lies and allies in contemporary Black media New York : Routledge, 2023 9781032271743 |
| LCCN | 2022036904 |
| ISBN | 9781003292470 electronic book |
| ISBN | 100329247X electronic book |
| ISBN | 1000813037 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781000813074 electronic book |
| ISBN | 100081307X electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781000813036 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | paperback |
| Standard identifier# |
10.4324/9781003292470 |
| Stock number | 9781003292470 Taylor & Francis |
