Bernardi, Daniel (Ed.) : Universtiy of California-Los Angeles

Daniel Bernardi is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Film and Television at UCLA.

"This seminal anthology explores how the stylistic and institutional development of classical Hollywood cinema went hand in hand with a profound and pervasive ideological commitment to the depiction of race."

--Matthew Bernstein, coeditor of Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film

Rutgers University Press Web Site, November, 2000

As indelible components of the history of the United States, race and racism have permeated nearly all aspects of life: cultural, economic, political, and social. In this first anthology on race in early cinema, fourteen scholars examine the origins, dynamics, and ramifications of racism and Eurocentrism and the resistance to both during the early years of American motion pictures.