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Representing Blackness : Issues in Film and Video /

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 disclosure, original essay...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Smith, Valerie, 1956- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Black beginnings : from Uncle Tom's cabin to The birth of a nation / Donald Bogle
  • Spectatorship and capture in King Kong : the guilty look / James A. Snead
  • "Race movies" as voices of the Black bourgeoisie : The scar of shame / Thomas Cripps
  • The scar of shame : skin color and caste in Black silent melodrama / Jane Gaines
  • No-theory theory of contemporary Black cinema / Tommy L. Lott
  • But compared to what? : reading realism, representation, and essentialism in School daze, Do the right thing, and the Spike Lee discourse / Wahneema Lubiano
  • What is this "Black" in Black popular culture? / Stuart Hall
  • Innocence and ambiguity in the films of Charles Burnett / Nathan Grant
  • Visible silence : spectatorship in Black gay and lesbian film / David Van Leer
  • Haile Gerima and the political economy of cinematic resistance / Mike Murashige
  • Telling family secrets : narrative and ideology in Suzanne Suzanne / Valerie Smith.