A Problematic Representation of Freedom and Rebellion in the American Civil Rights Cinema

Patrycja WŁODEK

Katedra Mediów i Badań Kulturowych, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej, ul. Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, Poland , Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3727


Abstract

The author analyzes relations between pop-culture, mainstream cinema, and protest cultures, based on the example of civil rights cinema of the 1980s and the 1990s and the 21st century new civil rights cinema. Both “sub-genres” are considered in the political and ideological context of Reaganism and the Obama era cinema, and analyzed from the perspective of memory studies. These particular contexts show the impact of contemporary policies on ways in which the past and the collective memory are being shaped by texts of culture.

Keywords:

civil rights cinema, new civil rights cinema, mainstream, resistance, freedom, Hollywood, memory studies, civil rights movement


Published
2023-10-06


WŁODEK, P. . (2023). Problematyczna reprezentacja wolności i buntu w amerykańskim kinie walki o prawa człowieka. Ethos. Quarterly of The John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin, 36(1 (141). https://doi.org/10.12887/36-2023-1-141-11

Patrycja WŁODEK 
Katedra Mediów i Badań Kulturowych, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej, ul. Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3727



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