Gerald R Butters
Biographic Data
| ID | 1707880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald R Butters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald R |
| FAMILY NAME | Butters |
| SIGNATURE | BUTTERS G R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aurora University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Feminist and Queer Archives
Starring Red Wing! The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star
Starring Red Wing! The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star Starring Red Wing! The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star. By Linda M Waggoner. (Lincoln: Bison Books, 2019. xxiv, 439 pp. $32.95.) Gerald Butters Gerald Butters Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107…
Normalizing Black Spectatorship in the Loop
Introduction
Stealing the Show
Many consider the 1930s the nadir of African American representation in film. Donald Bogle illustrated racialized archetypical stereotypes in Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks in 1973. Unfortunately, scholarship on this era has moved little beyond Bogle's interpretive history of that decade. Miriam J. Petty of Northwestern University has destroyed this simplistic framework in one fell swoop. In Stealing the Show she delivers a sophisticat…
Uplift Cinema
Journal Article Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity Get access By Allyson Nadia Field. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. xxii, 322 pp. Cloth, $94.95. Paper, $26.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 236–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw109 Published: 01 June 2016
Cara Caddoo. Envisioning Freedom
Journal Article Cara Caddoo. Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life. Get access Cara Caddoo. Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 294. $35.00. Gerald R. Butters, Jr. Gerald R. Butters, Jr. Aurora University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume …
Education in the School of Dreams
American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary
A significant new text on the depiction and role of the American South in motion pictures has been long overdue, and the editors Deborah E. Barker and Kathryn McKee have fulfilled the challenge. Building on earlier works such as Warren French’s The South and Film (1981) and Edward D. C. Campbell’s The Celluloid South: Hollywood and the Southern Myth (1981), this rich anthology is divided into three sections: “Rereading the Hollywood South,”’ “Vie…
How the West Was Sung
Westerns—whether in the form of literature, motion pictures, or a television series—have always been about far more than the West. American idealism; constructions of masculinity, imperial conquest, nature, and the frontier; acceptable notions of womanhood; and the place of the “Other” have all played key roles in the western narrative, raising teleological questions that transcend a specific place. The cinematic western occupies an exalted posit…
Imagining the African American West
Imagining the African American West does not explore the realities of the black frontier experience. Instead, Blake Allmendinger navigates the rich body of cultural artifacts about the West, perceived through the eyes of African American artists. Rather than solely focusing on literary fiction, the author also considers film, music, and autobiography, illustrating how the various mediums intersected with each other. What Allmendinger does focus o…
Black Manhood on the Silent Screen
Uplift Cinema
Journal Article Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity Get access By Allyson Nadia Field. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. xxii, 322 pp. Cloth, $94.95. Paper, $26.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 236–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw109 Published: 01 June 2016
Normalizing Black Spectatorship in the Loop
Introduction
American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary
A significant new text on the depiction and role of the American South in motion pictures has been long overdue, and the editors Deborah E. Barker and Kathryn McKee have fulfilled the challenge. Building on earlier works such as Warren French’s The South and Film (1981) and Edward D. C. Campbell’s The Celluloid South: Hollywood and the Southern Myth (1981), this rich anthology is divided into three sections: “Rereading the Hollywood South,”’ “Vie…
Black Manhood on the Silent Screen
Imagining the African American West
Imagining the African American West does not explore the realities of the black frontier experience. Instead, Blake Allmendinger navigates the rich body of cultural artifacts about the West, perceived through the eyes of African American artists. Rather than solely focusing on literary fiction, the author also considers film, music, and autobiography, illustrating how the various mediums intersected with each other. What Allmendinger does focus o…
How the West Was Sung
Westerns—whether in the form of literature, motion pictures, or a television series—have always been about far more than the West. American idealism; constructions of masculinity, imperial conquest, nature, and the frontier; acceptable notions of womanhood; and the place of the “Other” have all played key roles in the western narrative, raising teleological questions that transcend a specific place. The cinematic western occupies an exalted posit…
American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary
A significant new text on the depiction and role of the American South in motion pictures has been long overdue, and the editors Deborah E. Barker and Kathryn McKee have fulfilled the challenge. Building on earlier works such as Warren French’s The South and Film (1981) and Edward D. C. Campbell’s The Celluloid South: Hollywood and the Southern Myth (1981), this rich anthology is divided into three sections: “Rereading the Hollywood South,”’ “Vie…
Education in the School of Dreams
Cara Caddoo. Envisioning Freedom
Journal Article Cara Caddoo. Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life. Get access Cara Caddoo. Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 294. $35.00. Gerald R. Butters, Jr. Gerald R. Butters, Jr. Aurora University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume …
Uplift Cinema
Journal Article Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity Get access By Allyson Nadia Field. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. xxii, 322 pp. Cloth, $94.95. Paper, $26.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 236–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw109 Published: 01 June 2016
Stealing the Show
Many consider the 1930s the nadir of African American representation in film. Donald Bogle illustrated racialized archetypical stereotypes in Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks in 1973. Unfortunately, scholarship on this era has moved little beyond Bogle's interpretive history of that decade. Miriam J. Petty of Northwestern University has destroyed this simplistic framework in one fell swoop. In Stealing the Show she delivers a sophisticat…
Normalizing Black Spectatorship in the Loop
Introduction
Starring Red Wing! The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star
Starring Red Wing! The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star Starring Red Wing! The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star. By Linda M Waggoner. (Lincoln: Bison Books, 2019. xxiv, 439 pp. $32.95.) Gerald Butters Gerald Butters Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107…
Feminist and Queer Archives
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