Sisters in the Life

A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making
Herausgeber: Welbon, Yvonne

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Produktbeschreibung

From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a powerful contribution to film history. But despite its importance, this work has gone largely unacknowledged by cinema historians and cultural critics. Assembling a range of interviews, essays, and conversations, Sisters in the Life tells a full story of African American lesbian media-making spanning three decades. In essays on filmmakers including Angela Robinson, Tina Mabry and Dee Rees; on the making of Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman (1996); and in interviews with Coquie Hughes, Pamela Jennings, and others, the contributors center the voices of black lesbian media makers while underscoring their artistic influence and reach as well as the communities that support them. Sisters in the Life marks a crucial first step in narrating the history and importance of these compelling yet unsung artists. Contributors. Jennifer DeVere Brody, Jennifer DeClue, Raul Ferrera-Balanquet, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Thomas Allen Harris, Devorah Heitner, Pamela L. Jennings, Alexandra Juhasz, Kara Keeling, Candace Moore, Marlon Moore, Michelle Parkerson, Roya Rastegar, L. H. Stallings, Yvonne Welbon, Patricia White, Karin D. Wimbley

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370864
• ISBN-10: 0822370867
• Artikelnr.: 48325065

Autorenporträt

Yvonne Welbon and Alexandra Juhasz, editors

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. To Be Transparent: Seeing Directions and Connections in Black
Lesbian Film / Alexandra Juhasz  ix
Introduction. The Sisters in the Life Archive Project / Yvonne Welbon  1
Part I. 1986–1995
Introduction / Yvonne Welbon  15
1. Birth of a Notion: Toward Black, Gay, and Lesbian Imagery in Film and
Video / Michelle Parkerson  21
2. Narrating Our History: An Introduction / Thomas Allen Harris  26
3. Narrating Our History: Selections from a Dialogue among Queer Media
Artists from the African Diaspora / Edited by Raùl Ferrera-Balanquet and
Thomas Allen Harris, with Shari Frilot, Leah Gilliam, Dawn Suggs, Jocelyn
Taylor, and Yvonne Welbon  29
4. Construction of Computation and Desire: Introduction to Yvonne Welbon's
Interview with Pamela L. Jennings / Kara Keeling  47
5. Ruins and Desire: Interview with Pamela L. Jennings, July 27, 2012 /
Yvonne Welbon  51
6. the book of ruins and desire: Interactive Mechatronic Sculpture / Pamela
L. Jennings  63
7. A Cosmic Demonstration of  Shari Frilot's Curatorial Practice / Roya
Rastegar  66
8. Identity and Performance in Yvonne Welbon's Remembering Wei-Yi Fang,
Remembering Myself: An Autobiography / Devorah Heitner  92
Part II. 1996–2016
Introduction / Yvonne Welbon  115
9. Producing Black Lesbian Media / Candace Moore  125
10. Stereotypy, Mammy, and Recovery in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman
/ Karin D. Wimbley
11. Coquie Hughes: Urban Lesbian Filmmaker. Introduction to Yvonne Welbon's
Interview with Coquie Hughes / Jennifer DeVere Brody  160
12. Stepping Out on Faith: Interview with Coquie Hughes, July 27, 2012 /
Yvonne Welbon  165
13. "Invite Me In!": Angela Robinson at Hollywood's Threshold / Patricia
White  176
14. Shine Louise Houston: An Interstice of Her Own Making / L. H.
Stallings  191
15. From Rage to Resignation: Reading Tina Mabry's Mississippi Damned as a
Post-Civil Rights Response to Nina Simone's "Mississippi Goddam" / Marlon
Rahquel Moore  205
16. The Circuitous Route of Presenting Black Butch: The Travels of Dee
Ree's Pariah / Jennifer DeClue  225
17. Creating the World Anew: Black Lesbian Legacies and Queer Film Futures
/ Alexis Pauline Gumbs  249
Acknowledgments  261
Selected Bibliography  263
Contributors  269
Index  273