Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature [electronic resource] /
Green, T.editor.
Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in the visual interpretation of African American literary texts using film, music, black masculinity, black feminist, and cultural theory.
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Cover; Haf-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedicated; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One The Black Matriarch's Quest for Love: Oprah Winfrey as Sofia in The Color Purple; Two Oprah Winfrey and the Trauma Drama: "What's So Good About Feeling Bad?"; Three Creating a Legacy of Disconnection: Colorism and Classism in Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding; Four Wanderlust, Hysteria, and Insurrection: (Re)presenting the "Beloved" Sweet Home Men; Five "Let the Music Play": Music, Meaning, and Method in Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Six Blues, Hope, and Disturbing Images: A Comparison of Sapphire's Push and the Film PreciousAdditional References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in the visual interpretation of African American literary texts using film, music, black masculinity, black feminist, and cultural theory.
Winfrey, Oprah
Winfrey, Oprah
America-Literatures.
Motion pictures-History.
Ethnicity.
Motion pictures-Production and direction.
Motion pictures and television.
Fiction.
North American Literature.
Film History.
Ethnicity Studies.
Directing.
Screen Studies.
Fiction.