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Envisioning Black feminist voodoo aesthetics : African spirituality in American cinema /

This book interrogates eight contemporary American films to determine what role the use of Voodoo in popular representations has played in the construction of black female imaginaries within the United States. It evaluates how filmmakers employ Voodoo aesthetics to reenact black women's spiritu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Martin, Kameelah L., 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
Colección:Black diasporic worlds: origins and evolutions from new world slaving
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.