Lola Young

Fear of the Dark

'Race', Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

Since film became a major component of mass circulation popular culture, the portrayal of black people has erupted on to cinema screens in an apparently non-systematic, erratic manner. While these portrayals constitute an invaluable resource documenting particular experiences and providing historical interpretation, they have tended to be studies for the ideological correctness of depictions of black people and the extent to which they rely on stereotypes. "Fear of the Dark" develops a particular critical perspective on the film portrayal of female black sexuality and questions the extent to which black film makers have challenged its stereotypical image, examining the degree to which black female sexuality systematically connects with history Films such as "Sapphire" (1959), "Flame in the Streets" (1961), "Leo the Last" (1969), "Pressure" (1974), "Black Joy" (1977), "Burning an Illusion" (1981), "Playing Away" (1986), and "Mona Lisa" (1987) are closely examined and situated in their historical and social context. There are several themes which provide the focus for the analyses of the films: anxieties about interracial sexual relations; the assumption of an oppositional relation between black and white people; fears about the instability of the family unit and its effect in black and white communities; and social relations between black and white women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780415097093
• ISBN-10: 0415097096
• Artikelnr.: 21092030

Autorenporträt

Lola Young is a former professional actress and currently is Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Themes and issues
Chapter 2 Notes on the discourse of 'race'
Chapter 3 Imperial culture: the primitive, the savage and white civilization
Chapter 4 'Miscegenation' and the perils of 'passing'
Chapter 5 Family life
Chapter 6 Representing reality and 'the black experience' in 1970s Britain
Chapter 7 British cinema into the 1980s
Chapter 8 'Race', identity and cultural criticism