White Saviors Get Gold Trophies: Colorblind Racism and Film Award Culture
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“White Saviors Get Gold Trophies: Colorblind Racism and Film Award Culture” analyzes the cultural “text” of Green Book’s Best Picture acceptance speech at the 2019 Academy Awards to expose the neoliberal, colorblind mode of racism that infects the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as the American film industry at large.
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Rauf, S., & Mehmood, A. (2025) · Nova Integrata: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies · doi:10.66382/nijms2.65
“This argument is further extended to describe the way American movie industry is inclined to push a form of racism that is neoliberal and colourblind under the impact of the cinematic award culture as observed in the case of Green Book winning the 2019 Academy Awards (Vliet, 2021).”
- Authors
- Vliet, H.
- Corresponding author
- Vliet, Hannah
- Venue
- Film Matters
- Publisher
- Intellect
- Published
- 2021-12-01
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 140-151
- ISSN
- 2042-1869 (ISSN-L)
- 2042-1877
- OpenAlex
- W4214848712
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Film Matters (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Cinema and Media Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cinema History and Criticism
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Cultural Identity and Representation
- Keywords
- colorblind racism, Academy Awards, Green Book, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, film awards, neoliberalism, whiteness, Hollywood, race in film
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