Expanding the black film canon race and genre across six decades
Expanding the black film canon: race and genre across six decades

If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a Slave and Moonlight to Get Out, Black Panther, and BlackkKlansman tells us anything, it might be that there's no such thing as 'black film' per se. This book is especially timely, then, in expanding our idea of what black films...

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1. Verfasser: Alexander, Lisa Doris ca. 20. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lawrence, Kansas University Press of Kansas [2019]
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 1960-
Film
Schwarze > Motiv
Schwarze
USA
African Americans in motion pictures
Race relations in motion pictures
Racism in motion pictures
African Americans in the motion picture industry
Zusammenfassung:If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a Slave and Moonlight to Get Out, Black Panther, and BlackkKlansman tells us anything, it might be that there's no such thing as 'black film' per se. This book is especially timely, then, in expanding our idea of what black films are and, going back to the 1960s, showing us new and interesting ways to understand them. When critics and scholars write about films from the Blaxploitation movement such as Cotton Comes to Harlem, Shaft, Superfly, and Cleopatra Jones ;they emphasize their importance as films made for black audiences. Consequently, Lisa Doris Alexander points out, a film like the highly popular, Oscar-nominated Blazing Saddles&;costarring and co-written by Richard Pryor is generally left out of the discussion because it doesn't fit the profile of what a black film of the period should be. This is the kind of categorical thinking that Alexander seeks to broaden, looking at films from the 60s to the present day in the context of their time. Applying insights from black feminist thought and critical race theory to one film per decade, she analyzes what each can tell us about the status of black people and race relations in the United States at the time of its release. By teasing out the importance of certain films excluded from the black film canon, Alexander hopes to expand that canon to include films typically relegated to the category of popular entertainment and to show how these offer more nuanced representations of black characters even as they confront, negate, or parody the controlling images that have defined black filmic characters for decades.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:viii, 247 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780700628391
9780700628407

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