Contemporary Black American cinema : race, gender and sexuality at the movies / edited by Mia Mask.
| Other author | Mask, Mia, 1969- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2012. |
| Description | x, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Mia Mask -- Paul Robeson and the end of his "movie" career / Charles Musser -- The burden of the beautiful beast: visualization and the black male body / Keith Harris -- Reckless eyeballing: coonskin, film blackness, and the racial grotesque / Michael Gillespie -- The measure of men: legacies of Poitier's A piece of the action / Ian Gregory Strachan -- Bamboozled: in the mirror of abjection / Ed Guerrero -- Between documentary and the avant-garde: exploring the visual poetics of ruins in Christopher Harris's Still/here / Terri Francis -- Who's behind that fat black suit?: Momma, Medea, Rasputia and the politics of cross dressing / Mia Mask -- Disney's improvisation: New Orleans' second line, racial masquerade and the reproduction of whiteness in The princess and the frog / Sarita Gregory -- Shadowboxing: Lee Daniels's non-representational cinema / Alessandra Raengo -- "I'm a militant queen": queering blaxploitation films / Angelique Harris -- Street girls with no future?: black women coming of age in the city / Paula Massood. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 2011048596 |
| ISBN | 9780415523226 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0415523222 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780203118146 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 0203118146 (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN1995.9.B585 C59 2012 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |