Michael Boyce Gillespie

Film Blackness

American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Michael Boyce Gillespie is Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Media and Communication Arts and the Black Studies Program at the City College of New York, City University of New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362050
• ISBN-10: 0822362058
• Artikelnr.: 44140973

Autorenporträt

Michael Boyce Gillespie is Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Media and Communication Arts and the Black Studies Program at the City College of New York, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. We Insist: The Idea of Black Film  1
1. Reckless Eyeballing: Coonskin and the Racial Grotesque  17
2. Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street and Black Performativity  51
3. Voices Inside (Everything is Everything): Deep Cover and Modalities of
Noir Blackness  83
4. Black Maybe: Medicine for Melancholy, Place, and Quiet Becoming  119
Coda. Destination Out  157
Notes  161
Bibliography  203
Index  223