*Call for Papers* We are inviting abstract submissions for a proposed companion volume to our edited collection /The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America/ (NYU Press, 2014). Tentative Title: */Colorblind Hollywood: Movies in Post-Racial America /* Twenty-first century America adheres to a politics of colorblindness.The election of Barack Obama and his two terms as president helped create this complex cultural moment that many have deemed post-racial.Colorblind racism denies differences based on skin color by simply refusing to see color: the rhetoric of colorblind racism then enables the reinforcement of dominant ideologies and institutional practices by negating difference.Sociologists, political scientists, historians, economists, and media studies scholars have been central in defining and describing the manner in which colorblind racism functions as the major discursive strategy for the maintenance of racial inequities in the United States today. */Colorblind Hollywood: Movies in Post-Racial America /*will consider the influence of this discourse of colorblind racism on contemporary American film.This project offers an important intervention in the study of the cinematic representation of race as manifest through one of the dominant global mediums for cultural negotiation and exchange.This collection will examine cinematic renderings of the current racial landscape of this country and its manifestation through a multiplicity of identity positions that include race, ethnicity, class, and gender. Although the study of the role of race in Hollywood film is not unique, what distinguishes this project is the lens through which race will be viewed, namely, that of the politics of colorblind racism.Contemporary Hollywood reflects a prescribed sense of diversity; this project will consider how that diversity is constructed and, more importantly, how that construction is read by a viewing audience that adheres to a politics of colorblind racism. *//* Possible topics might include, but are not limited to: Socio-cultural/historical approaches Critical/theoretical debates Industry/institutional approaches Genre ** Gender and sexuality Audiences and spectatorship The representation and performance of ethnicity, biraciality, and race Please submit a 500-word abstract and a brief bio to Sarah E. Turner ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Sarah Nilsen ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by September 1, 2015.Successful submissions will be notified by the end of September. -- Sarah Nilsen Associate Professor Director of Film and Television Studies University of Vermont (802) 656-3063 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html