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Womanist and Black feminist responses to Tyler Perry's productions /
African American playwright, actor, television producer and filmmaker Tyler Perry is an American cultural phenomenon. Perry has made over half a billion dollars through the development of films, plays, and television series that center storylines about black women, black communities and black religi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Emilie M. Townes
- Introduction; LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, Tamura Lomax, and Duncan
- Part I: Filmography
- Part II: Theology, Spirituality and Black Popular Religious Imaginations
- 1: Tyler Perry Reads Scripture; Nyasha Junior
- 2: Signifying Love and Embodied Relationality: Towards a Womanist Theological Anthropology; Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
- 3: Jesus Will Fix It, After While: The Purpose and Role of Gospel Music in Tyler Perry Productions; Lisa Allen-McLaurin
- 4: Screening God; Andrea C. White
- Part III: Theorizing Intersecting Identities and (Re)Envisioning Black Womanhood
- 5: A People That Would Take Care of Ourselves: Tyler Perry's Vision of Community and Gender Relations; Yolande M.S. Tomlinson
- 6: It aint where you comin' from, honey: Class, Social Mobility and Marriage in Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion; Carol B. Duncan
- 7: Mad Black Bitches and Lady-like Saints: Representations of African American Women in Tyler Perry Films; Tamura A. Lomax
- 8: (Re)Mediating Black Womanhood: Tyler Perry, Black Feminist Cultural Criticism and the Politics of Appropriation; Whitney Peoples
- Part IV: The Politics of Performance
- 9: Pause, Auntie Momma!: Reading Religion in Tyler Perry's Fat Drag; LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant
- 10: Madea vs. Medea: Agape, and the Militarist or Murderous Maternal; Joy James
- Part V: Black Women as Religio-Cultural Capital
- 11: Tyler Perry and the (Mis)Representation of Religious Morality; Terrion L. Williamson
- 12: Talking Back and Taking My 'Amens' with Me: Tyler Perry and the Narrative Colonization of Black Women's Stories; Brittney Cooper
- 13: Do You Want to Be Well?: The Gospel Play, Womanist Theology, and Tyler Perry's Artistic Project; Robert J. Patterson
- Afterword: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.