Black boys: the social aesthetics of British urban film

"Black Boys: The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film produces the first dedicated analysis, drawing on film studies, sociological and media studies perspectives, and through historicization and contextualisation, that seeks to understand the emergence and allure of the black urban film genr...

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Main Author: Nwonka, Clive (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2023
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:"Black Boys: The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film produces the first dedicated analysis, drawing on film studies, sociological and media studies perspectives, and through historicization and contextualisation, that seeks to understand the emergence and allure of the black urban film genre for filmmakers, broadcasters and audiences in the contemporary British mediascape. It locates the genre at the intersection of complex filmic, socio-political and media relations and modes of production that are themselves intertwined with political, legislative and cultural agendas tied to post-multiculturalist and neoliberalist tendencies within film industry and public service broadcasting frameworks. Further, the book relates the contextual with the textual through a range of case studies of key films from the urban genre such as Attack the Block and Bullet Boy through a reliance on film and cultural studies approaches. Particularly, the book provides a strong textual analysis of the films in question, moving beyond the often sociologically-dominated frameworks for such interpretations and approaches the case studies of films through alternative analytical optics including architecture and space, allegory, crime discourses and popular music. Black Boys poses empirical questions not only of what constitutes British Urban Cinema, but whether inherited understandings of the genre, however defined, can present an authentic analysis of the social, cultural and political realities of Britain's urban youth within film culture."
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (336 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781501352850
9781501352836
9781501352843
DOI:10.5040/9781501352850

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