Film Blackness

Klappentext Michael Boyce Gillespie is Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Media and Communication Arts and the Black Studies Program at the City College of New York, City University of New York. Zusammenfassung Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film! seeing it not as the representation of the black experience! but as the visual negotiation between film as art and the social construction of race! as well as an interdisciplinary form that enacts black visual and expressive culture.

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Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, seeing it not as the representation of the black experience, but as the visual negotiation between film as art and the social construction of race, as well as an interdisciplinary form that enacts black visual and expressive culture.

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Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. We Insist: The Idea of Black Film 1

1. Reckless Eyeballing: Coonskin and the Racial Grotesque 17

2. Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street and Black Performativity 51

3. Voices Inside (Everything is Everything): Deep Cover and Modalities of Noir Blackness 83

4. Black Maybe: Medicine for Melancholy, Place, and Quiet Becoming 119

   Coda. Destination Out 157

   Notes 161

   Bibliography 203

   Index 223