Black Cinema & Visual Culture
Art and Politics in the 21st Century
- 160 pages
- English
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Black Cinema & Visual Culture
Art and Politics in the 21st Century
About this book
This culturally and politically timely collection examines new Black films and moving images that have, once again, excited and possibly shifted the global media landscape.
At a moment some scholars have described as post-post-racial, Black Cinema & Visual Culture provides new, urgent definitions and theories for Black cinema and furthers the development of its critical discourses. Gathering some of the leading scholars and critics in the field, this book enriches and advances the study of Black film and media and its social and political implications at a breakthrough period of expansion in the 21st century. This anthology tackles a wide range of topics from social justice, new media, and Afrofuturism, to race, gender, sexuality, mass incarceration, cultural memory, and Afrosurrealism, exploring the current climate of Black cinematic art that has proven wildly popular with domestic and global audiences, including hit films like Get Out and Marvel's Black Panther. Together, these essays deepen understandings of Black visual culture, its creative image-makers, the political economy of Hollywood, and the cultural politics at the intersection of modern cinema, streaming platforms, and digital technologies.
Black Cinema & Visual Culture will serve as an important learning tool for university courses spanning topics in film studies, American film and television, cultural studies, American studies, African Diaspora studies, media activism, social analysis, and African-American studies. This volume will also provide a benchmark in popular and intellectual circles for anyone interested in popular culture, Black-American cinema, media, issues of race in Hollywood, or Black culture and the conditions that shape both its art and politics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Afrofuture and Black Horror in Three Acts
- 2 Feeling What I’m Seeing, Seeing What I’m Feeling
- 3 Bury Me in the Ocean: Marvel’s Black Panther and the Politics of Performative Wokeness
- 4 Listening Rather for the Tone than the Lyrics: A Memoire of Afrosurrealism
- 5 The Philosophonic Labor of These Hands
- 6 To Build a Table: The Rise of Tyler Perry in African-American Cinema
- 7 Streaming for Black Lives
- 8 Out of Form into Being: Black Women Filmmakers and Experiments in Expansive Cinema
- 9 Strangers in the Village: Black Independent Cinema in the 21st Century
- 10 Prison Notes: Cinematic Tales from the Black Gulag
- 11 Future Rhythms in Afrofuturist Films
- Index