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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mask, Mia, 1969-

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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 e

Contents:

Front Cover; Contemporary Black American Cinema; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 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 Francis7. Who's behind that Fat Suit?: Momma, Madea, 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 Daniel's Nonrepresentational 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. MassoodContributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-87472-4

9786613716033

1-136-30803-2

1-136-30802-4

0-203-11814-6

9780203118146

OCLC:

804663059