Contemporary black American cinema
Subtitle: race, gender and sexuality at the movies
By: edited by Mia Mask
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780415523226; 9780203118146
Subjects: Sex in motion pictures; African Americans in the motion picture industry; Race in motion pictures; African Americans in motion pictures; Sex role in motion pictures
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mia Mask; title: Paul Robeson and the end of his "movie" career / Charles Musser; title: The burden of the beautiful beast: visualization and the black male body / Keith Harris; title: Reckless eyeballing: coonskin, film blackness, and the racial grotesque / Michael Gillespie; title: The measure of men: legacies of Poitier's A piece of the action / Ian Gregory Strachan; title: Bamboozled: in the mirror of abjection / Ed Guerrero; title: Between documentary and the avant-garde: exploring the visual poetics of ruins in Christopher Harris's Still/here / Terri Francis; title: Who's behind that fat black suit?: Momma, Medea, Rasputia and the politics of cross dressing / Mia Mask; title: Disney's improvisation: New Orleans' second line, racial masquerade and the reproduction of whiteness in The princess and the frog / Sarita Gregory; title: Shadowboxing: Lee Daniels's non-representational cinema / Alessandra Raengo; title: "I'm a militant queen": queering blaxploitation films / Angelique Harris; title: Street girls with no future?: black women coming of age in the city / Paula Massood.