Contemporary Black American cinema : race, gender and sexuality at the movies / edited by Mia Mask.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mask, Mia, 1969-

Taylor and Francis eBooks.

Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in motion pictures.

African Americans in the motion picture industry.

Race in motion pictures.

Sex role in motion pictures.

Sex in motion pictures.

African Americans.

Motion pictures.

Race.

Sex.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Mia Mask

1. Paul Robeson and the end of his "movie" career / Charles Musser

2. The burden of the beautiful beast: visualization and the black male body / Keith M. Harris

3. Reckless eyeballing: coonskin, film blackness, and the racial grotesque / Michael B. Gillespie

4. The measure of men: legacies of Poitier's A piece of the action / Ian Gregory Strachan

5. Bamboozled: in the mirror of abjection / Ed Guerrero

6. Between documentary and the avant-garde: exploring the visual poetics of ruins in Christopher Harris's Still/here / Terri Francis

7. Who's behind that fat black suit?: Momma, Medea, Rasputia and the politics of cross dressing / Mia Mask

8. Disney's improvisation: New Orleans' second line, racial masquerade and the reproduction of whiteness in The princess and the frog / Sarita McCoy Gregory

9. Shadowboxing: Lee Daniels's non-representational cinema / Alessandra Raengo

10. "I'm a militant queen": queering blaxploitation films / Angelique Harris

11. Street girls with no future?: black women coming of age in the city / Paula J. Massood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Contemporary black American cinema.

ISBN:

9780203118146

0203118146

9781136308024

1136308024

OCLC:

801405475

Publisher Number:

9786613716033

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.