Visitation : the conjure work of black feminist avant-garde cinema / Jennifer DeClue.

"In Visitation, Jennifer DeClue shows how Black feminist avant-garde filmmakers draw from historical archives in order to visualize and reckon with violence suffered by Black women in the United States. DeClue argues that these filmmakers-including Kara Walker, Kara Lynch, Tourmaline, and Ja'Tovia G...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	DeClue, Jennifer, 1971- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	Womanism > United States. Feminism and motion pictures > United States. Experimental films > United States. African American women motion picture producers and directors. African American feminists. Women, Black, in motion pictures. Feminist film criticism. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory. Experimental films. Feminism and motion pictures. Womanism. United States.
Physical Description:	xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

The Archive and the Silhouette : Framing Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema
Reckoning at the Bridge : Space and The Archive of Laura Nelson
Carrying the Knowledge/Performing the Archive : An Afternoon with Marsha P. Johnson
Ecstasy and the Archive : A Black Feminist Phenomenology of Freedom.