Representing Blackness : issues in film and video

Author(s)

• Smith, Valerie

Bibliographic Information

Representing Blackness : issues in film and video

edited with an introduction by Valerie Smith

（Rutgers depth of field series）

Rutgers University Press, 1997

• pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Bibliography: p. 217-220

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780813523132

Description

The essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African-American independent cinema. The volume includes essays on racial stereotypes, trenchant critiques of that discourse, original essays on directors such as Haile Gerima and Charles Burnett, and a discussion of black, gay and lesbian film and video. The contributors include: Donald Bogle; Thomas Cripps; Jane Gaines; Nathan Grant; Stuart Hall; Tommy L. Lott; Wahneema Lubiano; Mike Murashige; Valerie Smith; James Snead; and David Van Leer.

Volume

pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780813523149

Description

The essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independent cinema. This volume includes seminal essays on racial stereotypes, trenchant critiques of that discourse, original essays on important directors such as Haile Gerima and Charles Burnett, and an insightful discussion of black gay and lesbian film and video. The contributors include Donald Bogle, Thomas Cripps, Jane Gaines, Nathan Grant, Stuart Hall, Tommy L. Lott, Wahneema Lubiano, Mike Murashige, Valerie Smith, James Snead, and David Van Leer. This volume is an important contribution to the Depth of Field series and should be indispensible for courses and individual scholars in film and multicultural studies. The book contains a mix of original and previously published pieces.

Table of Contents

Introduction Black Beginnings: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation Spectatorship and Capture in King Kong: The Guilty Look "Race Movies" as Voices of the Black Bourgeoisie: The Scar of Shame The Scare of Shame: Skin Color and Caste in Black Silent Melodrama A No-Theory Theory of Contemporary Black Cinema But Compared to What?: Reading Realism, Representation, and Essentialism in School Daze, Do the Right Thing, and the Spike Lee Discourse What Is This "Black" in Black Popular Culture? Innocence and Ambiguity in the Films of Charles Burnett Visible Silence: Spectatorship in Black Gay and Lesbian Film Haile Gerima and the Political Economy of Cinematic Resistance Telling Family Secrets: Narrative and Ideology in Suzanne Suzanne Annotated Bibliography Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA30735520
• ISBN:
  • 0813523133
  • 0813523141
• LCCN: 96036075
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 240 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN1995.9.N4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Afro-Americans in motion pictures
  • LCSH : Afro-Americans in the motion picture industry
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA24978142