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Race, Philosophy, and Film Edited by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Dan Flory First published 2013 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2013 Taylor & Francis The right of the editors to be identi(cid:2) ed as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identi(cid:2) cation and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Race, philosophy, and (cid:2) lm / edited by Mary K. BloodsworthLugo and Dan Flory. pages cm. (Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 50) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Minorities in motion pictures. 2. Race in motion pictures. 3. Race Philosophy. I. BloodsworthLugo, Mary K. II. Flory, Dan. III. Flory, Dan. Imaginative resistance and the White gaze in Machete and The Help. PN1995.9.M56R33 2013 791.43'6529 dc23 2012042461 ISBN: 9780415624459(hbk) ISBN: 9780203104637(ebk) Typeset in Sabon by Apex CoVantage, LLC For Carmen and Emmy M.K.B-L. For Michaela and Alexandra D.F. Thispageintentionallyleftblank Race, Philosophy, and Film This collection of original essays investigates one of the least-explored top- ics in the philosophy of (cid:2) lm and the philosophy of race: the nexus of our ideas and attitudes toward race and how they arise in cinematic narrative and viewership. Employing a wide range of Continental and analytic per- spectives, this collection addresses how different philosophical sub(cid:2) elds would look if racial considerations were moved from the periphery to posi- tions of centrality. As the (cid:2) rst anthology to focus on this provocative in- tersection of topics, its chapters explore issues in epistemology, aesthetics, moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, and technology and the body. The essays assume no prior knowledge of philosophy of race and aim to illuminate not only the philosophical perspectives employed but also the cinematic examples analyzed. This anthology offers a timely collection of essays providing broad considerations of race (including ethnicity and whiteness); their connections to sex, gender, and the body; and their fre- quent manifestations in ideology through a variety of (cid:2) lm genres. Works discussed include A vatar , T he Help, M anderlay , T he Matrix, T he Prin- cess and the Frog , T rading Places, T wilight , and the television series True Blood . Contributors include Charles Mills, George Yancy, Michael Levine, Monique Roelofs, and Naomi Zack. Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo is professor of critical culture, gender, and race studies at Washington State University, USA. Dan Flory is associate professor of philosophy at Montana State University, USA. Thispageintentionallyleftblank Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com 18 The Force of Argument 26 Civil Society in Liberal Essays in Honor of Timothy Democracy Smiley Mark Jensen Jonathan Lear and Alex Oliver 27 The Politics of Logic 19 Autonomy and Liberalism Badiou, Wittgenstein, and Ben Colburn the Consequences of Formalism Paul M. Livingston 20 Habermas and Literary Rationality 28 Pluralism and Liberal Politics David L. Colclasure Robert B. Talisse 21 Rawls, Citizenship, and 29 Kant and Education Education Interpretations and Commentary M. Victoria Costa Edited by Klas Roth and Chris W. Surprenant 22 Objectivity and the Language- Dependence of Thought 30 Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and A Transcendental Defence of Maternal Subjectivity Universal Lingualism Alison Stone Christian Barth 31. Civility in Politics and Education 23 Habermas and Rawls Edited by Deborah S. Mower and Disputing the Political Wade L. Robison Edited by James Gordon Finlayson and Fabian 32 Philosophical Inquiry into Freyenhagen Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering 24 Philosophical Delusion and its Maternal Subjects Therapy Edited by Sheila Lintott and Outline of a Philosophical Maureen Sander Staudt Revolution Eugen Fischer 33 Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal Somogy Varga 25 Epistemology and the Regress Problem 34 The Philosophy of Curiosity Scott F. Aikin Ilhan Inan 35 Self-Realization and Justice 43 Reference and Structure in the A Liberal-Perfectionist Defense Philosophy of Language of the Right to Freedom from A Defense of the Russellian Employment Orthodoxy Julia Maskivker Arthur Sullivan 36 Narrative Identity, Autonomy, 44 Civic Virtue and the Sovereignty and Mortality of Evil From Frankfurt and MacIntyre Derek Edyvane to Kierkegaard John J. Davenport 45 Philosophy of Language and Webs of Information 37 Contemporary Feminist Heimir Geirsson Pragmatism Edited by Maurice Hamington and 46 Disagreement and Celia Bardwell Jones Skepticism Edited by Diego E. Machuca 38 Morality, Self Knowledge, and Human Suffering 47 Philosophy in Schools An Essay on The Loss of An Introduction for Philosophers Con(cid:2) dence in the World and Teachers Josep Corbi Edited by Sara Goering, Nicholas J. Shudak, and 39 Contrastivism in Philosophy Thomas E. Wartenberg Edited by Martijn Blaauw 48 A Philosophy of Material 40 Aesthetics After Metaphysics Culture From Mimesis to Metaphor Action, Function, and Mind Miguel de Beistegui Beth Preston 41. Foundations of Freedom 49 A Philosophy of the Screenplay Welfare-Based Arguments against Ted Nannicelli Paternalism Simon R. Clarke 50 Race, Philosophy, and Film 42 Pittsburgh School of Philosophy Edited by Mary K. Sellars, McDowell, Brandom Bloodsworth Lugo and Chauncey Maher Dan Flory Contents List of Figures xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Philosophical Approaches to Race in Film 1 DAN FLORY AND MARY K. BLOODSWORTH-LUGO PART I Epistemology 1 Imaginative Resistance and the White Gaze in Machete and The Help 17 DAN FLORY 2 “Born into Bondage”: Teaching T he Matrix and Unlearning the Racial Organization of Knowledge 35 MICHAEL ENG 3 What’s So Bad About Blackface? 51 CHRISTY MAG UIDHIR PART II Aesthetics 4 “So Now You’re Swedish-American?” Jewish-American Women and Philosophies of Beauty in R equiem for a Dream 71 RENÉE R. CURRY AND WILLIAM BRIGHAM 5 Cruising through Race 84 MONIQUE ROELOFS
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