Deadpan [electronic resource] : the aesthetics of Black inexpression / Tina Post.

"Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression is an examination of the aesthetic assertions that inhere in gestures of expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in African American cultural production"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Post, Tina (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2023.
Series:Minoritarian aesthetics
Subjects:
Facial expression.
Body language.
Aesthetics.
Black people > Race identity.
Online Access:
De Gruyter eBook Complete: 2023 (De Gruyter)
Variant Title:
Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : some type of way
  • Subjectivity and self-specimenization
  • Minimalism and the aesthetics of Black threat
  • The opacity gradient
  • Excess and absence (or, The Negro Believes)
  • Buster Keaton's Black deadpan
  • Coda : Steve McQueen takes it back.