Representing Blackness Issues in Film and Video

Name: Representing Blackness Issues in Film and Video
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ISBN: 9780813523149

ISBN-10: 0813523141

ISBN-13: 9780813523149

Edition: 1997

Authors: Valerie Smith

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The essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independent cinema. This volume includes seminal essays on racial stereotypes, trenchant critiques of that discourse, original essays on important directors such as Haile Gerima and Charles Burnett, and an insightful discussion of black gay and lesbian film and video.The contributors include Donald Bogle, Thomas Cripps, Jane Gaines, Nathan Grant, Stuart Hall, Tommy L. Lott, Wahneema Lubiano, Mike Murashige, Valerie Smith, James Snead, and David Van Leer. This volume is an important contribution to the Depth of Field series and…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Introduction



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 Voices of the Black Bourgeoisie: The Scar of Shame



The Scar of Shame: Skin Color 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



Annotated Bibliography


Contributors


Index