Black American Cinema

Herausgeber: Diawara, Manthia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, the work of early Black filmmakers is given serious attention for the first time. Individual essays consider such topics as what a Black film tradition might be, the relation between Black American Filmmakers and filmmakers from the diaspora, the nature of Black film aesthetics, the artist's place within the community, and the representation of Black imaginary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780415903974
• ISBN-10: 0415903971
• Artikelnr.: 21845681

Autorenporträt

Manthia Diawara is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Black Aesthetics
Chapter 1 Black American Cinema, Manthia Diawara
Chapter 2 "Twoness" In the Style of Oscar Micheaux, J. Ronald Green
Chapter 3 Fire and Desire, Jane Gaines
Chapter 4 Oscar Micheaux, Thomas Cripps
Chapter 5 The Black Writer in Hollywood, Circa 1930, Phyllis Klotman
Chapter 6 Is Car Wash a Musical?, Richard Dyer
Chapter 7 The Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers, Ntongela Masilela
Chapter 8 Reading the Signs, Empowering the Eye, Toni Cade Bambara
Chapter 9 Spike Lee at the Movies, Amiri Baraka
Chapter 10 Spike Lee and the Commerce of Culture, Houston A. Jr. Baker
Chapter 11 The Ironies of Palace-Subaltern Discourse, Clyde Taylor
Chapter 12 Looking for Modernism, Henry Louis Jr. Gates
Part 2 Black Spectatorship
Chapter 13 Black Spectatorship, Manthia Diawara
Chapter 14 The Harlem Theater, Dan Streible
Chapter 15 The Black Image in Protective Custody, Ed Guerrero
Chapter 16 The Construction of Black Sexuality, Jacquie Jones
Chapter 17 Race, Gender and Psychoanalysis in Forties Film, Michele Wallace
Chapter 18 Reading through the Text, Jacqueline Bobo
Chapter 19 The Oppositional Gaze, Bell Hooks