Anna Everett

Returning the Gaze

A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949

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Produktbeschreibung

"Everett's fine book makes an important contribution to our understanding of black cinema, from production to journalism and criticism, as a resistance practice representing every orientation of black culture, from the popular to the political and aesthetic. This one is 'must' reading for all interested in black cinema, its issues, and its critical discourse."--Ed Guerrero, New York University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326144
• ISBN-10: 0822326140
• Artikelnr.: 21741122

Autorenporträt

Anna Everett is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Returning the Gaze 1
1. The Souls of Black Folk in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Black
Newspaper Criticism and the Early Cinema, 1909–1916
> 2. The Birth of a Nation and Interventionist Criticism: Resisting Race as
Spectacle 59
3. Cinephilia in the Black Renaissance: New Negro Film Criticism, 1916–1930
107
4. Black Modernist Dialectics and the New Deal: Accomodationist and Radical
Film Criticism, 1930–1940 179
5. The Recalcitrant Gaze; Critiquing Hollywood in the 1940s 272
Epilogue 314
Notes 317
Works Cited 333
Index 349