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Where no Black woman has gone before : subversive portrayals in speculative film and TV / Diana Adesola Mafe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mafe, Diana Adesola, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, Black, in motion pictures.
- Women on television.
- Black people on television.
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Sex role on television.
- Science fiction television programs--History and criticism.
- Science fiction television programs.
- Fantasy television programs--History and criticism.
- Fantasy television programs.
- Horror films--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Science fiction films--History and criticism.
- Science fiction films.
- Horror television programs--History and criticism.
- Horror television programs.
- Fantasy films--History and criticism.
- Fantasy films.
- Motion pictures--History--21st century.
- Motion pictures.
- Television programs--History--21st century.
- Television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades passed before many other black women began playing significant roles in speculative (i.e., science fiction, fantasy, and horror) film and television—a troubling omission, given that these genres offer significant opportunities for reinventing social constructs such as race, gender, and class. Challenging cinema’s history of stereotyping or erasing black women on-screen, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before showcases twenty-first-century examples that portray them as central figures of action and agency. Writing for fans as well as scholars, Diana Adesola Mafe looks at representations of black womanhood and girlhood in American and British speculative film and television, including 28 Days Later, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Children of Men, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Firefly, and Doctor Who: Series 3. Each of these has a subversive black female character in its main cast, and Mafe draws on critical race, postcolonial, and gender theories to explore each film and show, placing the black female characters at the center of the analysis and demonstrating their agency. The first full study of black female characters in speculative film and television, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before shows why heroines such as Lex in AVP and Zoë in Firefly are inspiring a generation of fans, just as Uhura did.
- Contents:
- Introduction : to boldly go
- Seeking a friend for the end of the world : 28 Days Later
- Last one standing : Alien vs. Predator
- The black Madonna : Children of Men
- Thank heaven for little girls : Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Intergalactic companions : Firefly and Doctor Who
- Coda : final frontiers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781477315248
- 1477315241
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