| Contents |
Black magic, disembodied. Marlon Brando's jazz acting and the obsolescence of blackface ; Borrowing Black masculinity: Dirty Harry finds his gentle side ; Passing tones: The talented Mr. Ripley and Pleasantville -- Serving the white audience. The racial displacements of Ransom and Fargo ; Black angels in America : millennial solutions to the "race problem" -- Unrepresentable subjects. Evidence : Thelonious Monk's challenge to jazz history ; Revenge of the Nerds : representing the White male collector of Black music -- Black magic, inverted. Robert Altman's jazz history lesson ; Spike Lee meets Aaron Copland. |
| Local note | Little-345147--305131046507Z |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-304) and index. |
| LCCN | 2003020083 |
| ISBN | 081353383X (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813533834 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813533848 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813533841 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
