Expanding the Black Film Canon: Race and Genre Across Six Decades

ISBN-13: 9780700628407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Lisa Doris Alexander

Spis treści

• 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