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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: White Scripts And Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books
  name:
    name part: Gayles, Jonathan
    role:
      role term: filmmaker.
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm)
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 55 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
  abstract: A valuable and colorful examination of 40 years of changing representations of Black masculinity in a significant area of popular culture - comic books. Twenty years ago, Marlon Riggs produced an essential documentary critique of the images of African Americans in US television in his award-winning Color Adjustment. Now comes a documentary on representations of Black masculinity in comic books; a popular culture genre which existed before television and whose reach extends into other areas of cultural production such as movies and animated TV series. White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books analyzes the subject for the first time and looks at it over a 40 year period. In a serious, lively and humorous manner, the film examines the degree to which some of the first Black superheroes generally adhered to and were burdened by stereotypes about Black men. However we also witness how some images shifted - oftentimes clumsily - to reflect the changing times. In fact the documentary was formerly entitled Shaft or Sidney Poitier: Black Masculinity in Comic Books to signify two types of characters, one with hyper-masculine urban swagger (Shaft) and one with remarkably dignified behavior (Sidney Poitier). Ultimately, it became clear that there was much more Shaft than Sidney Poitier in these early Black superheroes. Along with images from the comic books themselves, it features commentary by scholars and cultural critics (Jelani Cobb, Mark Anthony Neal, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua) producers, writers and artists (Reginald Hudlin, John Jennings, Tony Isabella and the late pioneer Dwayne McDuffie.) They provide tools for critiquing all media as they introduce and analyze the leading Black comic book superheroes of the late 60's to late 70's including Black Panther, the Falcon, John Stewart (the Green Lantern), Luke Cage and Black Lightning. Provides a truly provocative contribution to new and ongoing discussions about race, gender, class, and sexuality in…
  note: In Process Record.
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2012.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: In: English
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  subject:
    topic: Race & Class Studies
  subject:
    topic: Visual Art
  identifier: 1139593 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VDU
    record creation date: 160324
    record change date: 20260324182728.5
    record identifier: in00003777098
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng