TY - BOOK ID - 15839835 TI - Black children in Hollywood cinema : cast in shadow PY - 2017 SN - 3319482734 3319482726 9783319482736 PB - New York, New York : Springer Science+Business Media, DB - UniCat KW - Culture KW - United States KW - African Americans. KW - Youth KW - Communication. KW - Motion pictures KW - Cultural and Media Studies. KW - American Cinema. KW - American Culture. KW - African American Culture. KW - Youth Culture. KW - Media and Communication. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Social life and customs. KW - United States. KW - Performing arts KW - History. KW - Show business KW - Arts KW - Performance art KW - Motion pictures-United States. KW - United States-Study and teaching. KW - Youth-Social life and customs. KW - American Cinema and TV. KW - Communication, Primitive KW - Mass communication KW - Sociology KW - African Americans KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Motion pictures—United States. KW - United States—Study and teaching. KW - Youth—Social life and customs. KW - Black people KW - Blacks in motion pictures. KW - Children in motion pictures. KW - Racism in motion pictures. KW - Children, Black, in art. KW - Social aspects. KW - Black people in motion pictures. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15839835 AB - This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film. Debbie Olson argues that within the discourse of children’s studies and film scholarship in relation to the conception of “the child,” there is often little to no distinction among children by race—the “child” is most often discussed as a universal entity, as the embodiment of all things not adult, not (sexually) corrupt. Discussions about children of color among scholars often take place within contexts such as crime, drugs, urbanization, poverty, or lack of education that tend to reinforce historically stereotypical beliefs about African Americans. Olson looks at historical conceptions of childhood within scholarly discourse, the child character in popular film and what space the black child (both African and African American) occupies within that ideal. ER -