Envisioning Black feminist voodoo aesthetics African spirituality in American cinema / Kameelah L. Martin.

SeriesBlack diasporic worlds: origins and evolutions from new world slaving
Contents Introduction: Towards a Black feminist voodoo aesthetic -- Vintage Hollywood voodoo: the Black priestess in 1930s cinema -- Mambos, chickens, and blood: disrupting visual pleasure in Alan Parker's Angel heart -- For us, by us: Black feminist narratives of resistance in the independent films of Julie Dash and Kasi Lemmons -- Subversion and entertainment: elegba, trickery, and Black female absence in the Skeleton key -- Voodoo in Disneyland?: spiritual appropriation by the mouse; or imagineered voodoo aesthetics -- Epilogue: "Good wickedry": Beyoncé and the Black feminist voodoo aesthetics of Lemonade.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Martin, Kameelah L., 1978- author. Envisioning Black feminist voodoo aesthetics Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016] 9781498523288
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