Contemporary Black American Cinema (eBook, PDF)

Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies
Redaktion: Mask, Mia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the contributing authors deftly connect interdisciplinary perspectives from American studies, cinema studies, cultural studies, political science, media studies, and Queer theory. This multidisciplinary methodology expands the discursive and interpretive registers of film analysis. From Paul Robeson's and Sidney Poitier's star vehicles to Lee Daniels's directorial forays, these essays address the career legacies of film stars, examine various iterations of Blaxploitation and animation, question the comedic politics of "fat suit" films, and celebrate the innovation of avant-garde and experimental cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136308031
• Artikelnr.: 38254095

Autorenporträt

Mia Mask, Associate Professor of Film at Vassar College, is the author of　 Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film.　She has written film reviews and covered festivals for　Cineaste, IndieWire.com,　The Village Voice,　Film Quarterly,　Time Out New York,　and　The Poughkeepsie Journal. Her criticism was anthologized in　The Best American Movie Writing (1999), and her cultural commentary can be heard on National Public Radio. Her essays have been published in the　African American National Biography,　Film and Literature, and　American Cinema of the 1970s.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Mia Mask 1. Paul Robeson and the End of His "Movie" Career
by Charles Musser 2. The Burden of the Beautiful Beast: Visualization and the Black Male Body
by Keith M. Harris 3. Reckless Eyeballing: Coonskin, Film Blackness and the Racial Grotesque
by Michael B, Gillespie 4. The Measure of Men: Legacies of Poitier's A Piece of the Action
by Ian Gregory Strachan 5. Bamboozled: In the Mirror of Abjection
by Ed Guerrero 6. Between Documentary and the Avant
Garde: Exploring the Visual Poetics of Ruins in Christopher Harris's still/here
by Terri Francis 7. Who's Behind that Fat Suit?: Momma, Medea, Rasputia and the Politics of Cross
Dressing
by Mia Mask 8. Disney's Improvisation: New Orleans' Second Line, Racial Masquerade and the Reproduction of Whiteness in The Princess and the Frog
by Sarita McCoy Gregory 9. Shadowboxing: Lee Daniels's Nonrepresentational Cinema
by Alessandra Raengo 10. "I'm a Militant Queen": Queering Blaxploitation Films
by Angelique Harris 11. Street Girls With No Future?: Black Women Coming of Age in the City
by Paula Massood