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work_jq4wempmefhdxkdi645ouniwle	LEIGH ANNE DUCK	Commercial Counterhistory: Remapping the Movement in Lee Daniels' The Butler	2018	29	.pdf	application/pdf	14931	967	52	Examining the many forms of constraint produced by iconic images of black and gendered personhood, the film also takes on the spatial icon with which many of these figures are associated – commercial cinema might contribute to new conceptions of black political history and Blacks in American Films, th edn (New York: Continuum, ), –; Allison Lee Daniels' The Butler () might seem an unlikely candidate for intervening in Hollywood's civil rights genre, given that its conclusion argued that election of the nation's first black President had reassured executives concerning the marketability of such films, scholars warned against  Michael Cieply, "Coming Soon: A Breakout Year for Black Films," New York Times,  June http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/lee-daniels-i-am-not-here-to-just-tell-black-stories.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/lee-daniels-i-am-not-here-to-just-tell-black-stories.html This paradox – between the desire for more broadly distributed black historical films and the concern that commercial aesthetics resist projects that http://www.indiewire.com/2013/09/a-civil-rights-professor-reviews-lee-daniels-the-butler-34974 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/09/a-civil-rights-professor-reviews-lee-daniels-the-butler-34974 Butler – an unabashedly commercial film that nonetheless deconstructs familiar racial images, associating blackness with a history of broad geopolitical	./cache/work_jq4wempmefhdxkdi645ouniwle.pdf	./txt/work_jq4wempmefhdxkdi645ouniwle.txt