Racquel J. Gates

Double Negative

The Black Image and Popular Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Racquel J. Gates is Assistant Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000419
• ISBN-10: 1478000414
• Artikelnr.: 49676157

Autorenporträt

Racquel J. Gates is Assistant Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Negativity and the Black Popular Image  1
1. Eddie Murphy, Coming to America, and Formal Negativity  35
2. Relational Negativity: The Sellout Films of the 1990s  81
3. The Circumstantial Negativity of Halle Berry  114
4. Embracing the Ratchet: Reality Television and Strategic Negativity  142
Conclusion. Empire: A False Negative?  182
Notes  191
Bibliography  211
Index  219