Representing Blackness : issues in film and video
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Representing Blackness : issues in film and video
Athlone Press, 1997
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index
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Description
The seminal essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independence cinema. Among the topics discussed are racial stereotypes, critiques of that discourse, important directors such as Haile Gerima and Charles Burnett, and black, gay and lesbian film and video.
Table of Contents
- 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 voice of the black bourgeoisie - "The Scar of Shame"
- "The Scar of Shame" - skin colour 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" by Camille Billops and James V. Hatch.
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