The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption

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The White Savior Film temple university press philadelphia The White Savior Film Content, Critics, and Consumption matthew W. hughey temple university press philadelphia, pennsylvania 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright © 2014 by temple university all rights reserved published 2014 library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication data hughey, matthew W. (matthew Windust) the white savior film : content, critics, and consumption / matthew W. hughey. pages cm includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-1-4399-1000-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — isBn 978-1-4399-1001-6 (paperback : alk. paper) — isBn 978-1-4399-1002-3 (e-book) 1. Whites in motion pictures. 2. race in motion pictures. 3. motion pictures—social aspects— united states. i. title. pn1995.9.W45h85 2014 791.43′652909—dc23 2013043278 the paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the american national standard for information sciences—permanence of paper for printed library materials, ansi Z39.48-1992 printed in the united states of america 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 For Desie, who saves herself naming “whiteness” displaces it from the unmarked, unnamed status that is itself an effect of dominance. . . . to look at the social construction of whiteness, then, is to look head-on at a site of dominance. . . . to speak of whiteness is, i think, to assign everyone a place in the relations of racism. it is to emphasize that dealing with racism is not merely an option for white people— that, rather, racism shapes white people’s lives and identities in a way that is inseparable from other facets of daily life. —Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters ...