Jennifer DeClue

Visitation

The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

Jennifer DeClue examines Black feminist avant-garde films from filmmakers including Kara Walker, Tourmaline, and Jaâ Tovia Gary that visualize violence suffered by Black women in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781478019169
• ISBN-10: 1478019166
• Artikelnr.: 63513411

Autorenporträt

Jennifer DeClue is Associate Professor of the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Visitation  1
1. The Archive and the Silhouette: Framing Black Feminist Avant-Garde
Cinema  29
2. Reckoning at the Bridge: Saved and the Archive of Laura Nelson  65
3. Carrying the Knowledge / Performing the Archive: An Afternoon with
Marsha P. Johnson  99
4. Ecstasy and the Archive: A Black Feminist Phenomenology of Freedom  143
Coda. On Tenderness  183
Notes  187
Bibliography  211
Index  221