Contemporary black American cinema [electronic resource] : race, gender and sexuality at the movies / edited by Mia Mask.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Introduction / Mia Mask
- Paul Robeson and the end of his "movie" career / Charles Musser
- The burden of the beautiful beast: visualization and the black male body / Keith Harris
- Reckless eyeballing: coonskin, film blackness, and the racial grotesque / Michael Gillespie
- The measure of men: legacies of Poitier's A piece of the action / Ian Gregory Strachan
- Bamboozled: in the mirror of abjection / Ed Guerrero
- Between documentary and the avant-garde: exploring the visual poetics of ruins in Christopher Harris's Still/here / Terri Francis
- Who's behind that fat black suit?: Momma, Medea, Rasputia and the politics of cross dressing / Mia Mask
- Disney's improvisation: New Orleans' second line, racial masquerade and the reproduction of whiteness in The princess and the frog / Sarita Gregory
- Shadowboxing: Lee Daniels's non-representational cinema / Alessandra Raengo
- "I'm a militant queen": queering blaxploitation films / Angelique Harris
- Street girls with no future?: black women coming of age in the city / Paula Massood.