African American cinema through Black lives consciousness /

African American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented narrative film from post-World War II through the presidential administrat...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reid, Mark (Mark A.) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Postwar film treatment of the Civil Rights era : the fifties through the sixties
  • II. The blaxploitation film and pastiche
  • III. PostNegritude black film : pastiche and race
  • IV. Black cinematic womanist praxis
  • V. Sexual and racial polyphony in new black films.