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- Expanding the Black Film Canon : Race and Genre Across Six Decades
- Publication Name
- Expanding the Black Film Canon
- Title
- Expanding the Black Film Canon
- Subtitle
- Race and Genre across Six Decades
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780700628407
- ISBN
- 9780700628407
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Performing Arts
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Film / History & Criticism, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Release Date
- 30/08/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a Slave and Moonlight to Get Out , Black Panther , and BlackkKlansman tells us anything, it might be that there's no such thing as "black film" per se. This book is especially timely, then, in expanding our idea of what black films are and, going back to the 1960s, showing us new and interesting ways to understand them. When critics and scholars write about films from the Blaxploitation movement--such as Cotton Comes to Harlem , Shaft , Superfly , and Cleopatra Jones --they emphasize their importance as films made for black audiences. Consequently, Lisa Doris Alexander points out, a film like the highly popular, Oscar-nominated Blazing Saddles --costarring and co-written by Richard Pryor--is generally left out of the discussion because it doesn't fit the profile of what a black film of the period should be. This is the kind of categorical thinking that Alexander seeks to broaden, looking at films from the 60s to the present day in the context of their time. Applying insights from black feminist thought and critical race theory to one film per decade, she analyzes what each can tell us about the status of black people and race relations in the United States at the time of its release. By teasing out the importance of certain films excluded from the black film canon, Alexander hopes to expand that canon to include films typically relegated to the category of popular entertainment--and to show how these offer more nuanced representations of black characters even as they confront, negate, or parody the controlling images that have defined black filmic characters for decades.
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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700628401
ISBN-13
9780700628407
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24038427154
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Book Title
Expanding the Black Film Canon : Race and Genre Across Six Decades
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Film / History & Criticism, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2019
Genre
History, Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
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Pn1995.9.N4a44 2019
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"In Expanding the Black Film Canon Lisa Doris Alexander utilizes historical contextualization and applicable theory to produce a valuable analysis of individual films and genres with African American representation of the past sixty years."-- Gerald R. Butters Jr. , author of Black Manhood on the Silent Screen " Expanding the Black Film Canon: Race and Genre across Six Decades by Lisa Doris Alexander offers a significant contribution to black film studies. This is the first sweeping book to cover a fifty-plus year history of black cinema. Expanding the Black Film Canon provides scholars the opportunity to scrutinize and debate black films that have been oft overlooked. Alexander provides a close textual analysis of films, characters, and genres in each decade. While she does discuss mainstream black films, her book is a significant departure from previous ones because of the scope and attention she gives to the finer points of those films that have been underrepresented in black film scholarship. Expanding the Black Film Canon not only opens the possibilities for future research on the films Alexander carefully explores but also continues a dialogue that challenges the ways scholars and others think about, view, and scrutinize black films. Her analysis is astute and insightful and makes a unique contribution to film studies in general."-- Yvonne D. Sims , author of Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture, In Expanding the Black Film Canon Lisa Doris Alexander utilizes historical contextualization and applicable theory to produce a valuable analysis of individual films and genres with African American representation of the past sixty years.-- Gerald R. Butters Jr. , author of Black Manhood on the Silent Screen Expanding the Black Film Canon: Race and Genre across Six Decades by Lisa Doris Alexander offers a significant contribution to black film studies. This is the first sweeping book to cover a fifty-plus year history of black cinema. Expanding the Black Film Canon provides scholars the opportunity to scrutinize and debate black films that have been oft overlooked. Alexander provides a close textual analysis of films, characters, and genres in each decade. While she does discuss mainstream black films, her book is a significant departure from previous ones because of the scope and attention she gives to the finer points of those films that have been underrepresented in black film scholarship. Expanding the Black Film Canon not only opens the possibilities for future research on the films Alexander carefully explores but also continues a dialogue that challenges the ways scholars and others think about, view, and scrutinize black films. Her analysis is astute and insightful and makes a unique contribution to film studies in general.-- Yvonne D. Sims , author of Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Coming Attractions 1. I Ain't Fit to Live with No More: Nothing But a Man Revisited 2. "Hey, Where Are the White Women at?": The Presentation of Racism and Resistance in Blazing Saddles 3. Harlem Nights , Awkward Framing, and Complicated Gender Politics 4. Who's the Real Gangsta?: The Glass Shield and the Politics of Black Communities and Police Relations 5. "If You're Going to Tell People the Truth, Make Them Laugh": C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America as Mockumentary and Truth-Telling 6. Ladies First: Ava DuVernay and Black-Female-Centered Narratives 7. Who's the Hero of the Piece?: Hollywood's Representation of Jackie Robinson's Legacy 8. Are We Allowed to Be Children?: Black Teen Films, Trauma, and the Race to Adulthood Post-Credit Sequence Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2019-006695
Dewey Decimal
791.4308996073
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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