Precious: Identity, Adaptation and the African-American Youth Film

ISBN-13: 9781138681859 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 114 str.

Tim McNelis

Opis

This book examines a popular, divisive, and celebrity-endorsed filmic depiction of a troubled African American girl, focusing on the concept of African American youth film and genre hybridity; the adaptation of the film from its source novel; how it deals with issues of identity such as race, gender, and body size; the film's use of music and pop stars as spectacle; and how the film's critical reception brought back, and moved beyond, the old debates around positive representation of race.

Spis treści

Precious: An Introduction  1 Adapting Push to Precious  2 Precious and the Conventions of Youth Films  3 Precious and Narratives of Girlhood (Denied)  4 Precious’ Critical Reception and the Landscape of Colour-blind Racism  Conclusion

O autorze

Katherine Whitehurst is a lecturer in media and film at the University of Liverpool. Her research centres on adaptation; fairy tales; child, youth and age studies; screen and literature; girlhood and identity; cultural memory; feminism; and gender.