Documenting the Black Experience

Essays on African American History, Culture and Identity in Nonfiction Films
Herausgeber: Lawrence, Novotny

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Produktbeschreibung

History taught at the elementary, middle, high school and even college levels often excludes significant events from African American history, such as the murder of Emmett Till or the murder of four black girls by the Ku Klux Klan in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. Such events are integral parts of history that continue to inform America's racial politics. Their exclusion is a problem that this work addresses by bringing more visibility to documentary films focusing on the events. Books treating the history of documentary films follow a similar pattern, omitting the efforts of filmmakers who have continued to focus on African American history. This book works to make documentary discourse more complete, bringing attention to films that cover the African American experience in four areas--civil rights, sports, electronic media, and the contemporary black struggle--demonstrating how the issues continue to inform America's racial politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780786472673
• ISBN-10: 0786472677
• Artikelnr.: 40905038

Autorenporträt

Novotny Lawrence is an associate professor of cinema and media studies at Indiana University and the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Popular Culture. His research primarily centers on African American cinematic and mediated experiences, race, and popular culture. He has authored a book and co-edited an anthology on Blaxploitation Cinema and has also has published journal articles and book chapters on Black Dynamite and parody, African American religious iconography in Good Times, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, and the Blaxploitation-themed film, Detroit 9000.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments
ix Introduction (Novotny Lawrence)
1 Part I. Civil Rights The Scottsboro Boys' Experiences as Resource to Create a More Perfect Union (Joseph L. Smith)
10 The Clinton 12 and Prom Night in Mississippi: Conversations in Integration (Eric Pierson)
29 A National Concern: Remembering and Teaching the Death of Emmett Till (Kevin E. Grimm)
43 Fear Factor: When Black Equality Is Framed as Militant (Winsome Chunnu-Brayda and Travis D. Boyce)
57 Part II. Sports A "perpetual threat": Unforgivable Blackness and Jack Johnson as a Transmedia Sports Icon (Michael Graves)
74 From Compton to Center Court: Venus and Serena and the Black Female Experience in Professional Tennis (Novotny Lawrence)
92 Part III. Electronic Media Immortalizing Dorothy Dandridge in Documentary, African American Press and Mainstream Press (Charlene Regester)
116 "Rated R because it's real": Discourses of Authenticity in Wattstax (Mike Phillips)
132 A Glance at Herstory: Black Female Documentarians Navigating Beyond the Normative Constraints in A Question of Color and My Mic Sounds Nice (Theresa Renée White, Sara Tekle and Melanie Shaw)
153 Documenting Grassroots History as a Means to Social Change: 778 Bullets, Community Engagement and the Legacy of Rural Civil Rights (Angela J. Aguayo)
170 Part IV. And Beyond: The Contemporary Black Struggle Sundown Nation: Living in the Aftermath of an American Holocaust (David Rossiaky)
188 Portrait of Jason: A Reappraisal (Gerald R. Butters Jr.)
208 Dancing as Voice: Krumping and Clowning in Rize as Black Vernacular Rhetoric (Joshua Daniel Phillips)
221 Gender, the Streets and Violence: Ameena Matthews and Violence Interruptions in The Interrupters (Ashley Farmer)
238 About the Contributors
257 Index
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