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Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy
2022This book explicates how many films intersect black suffering and God-talk in ways that instantiate secular limitations to divine efficacy. The book’s concept of a modern God introduces a new method of analysis that reimagines theodical discourses as mechanisms of modern identities and filmmakers as skillful exegetes who recalibrate divine attributes ...
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Black Film Label: Negritude and Cinema
Third Text, 2010Abstract Highly criticised by African film‐makers, most prominently by Ousmane Sembene, the concept of Negritude is now experiencing a renaissance. A reconsideration of Negritude reveals new ways of thinking about African cinema. Negritude and African cinema should be viewed in their particularism, instead of presumed essentialism, and considered in ...
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2012
This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American filmmakers have played a remarkable role in the development of the American film, both independent and mainstream.
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This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American filmmakers have played a remarkable role in the development of the American film, both independent and mainstream.
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Revisiting and Remixing Black Cinema
The Moving Image, 2006The goal of Within Our Gates: Revisited and Remixed was to create a new way to critically read Oscar Micheaux's film, a way that refused the arbitrary divide between the past and the present, between the analog and the digital. Our creative collaborative was a combination of academics and community-based musicians, artists and scholars who sought to ...
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African Americans contributed to every aspect of filmmaking and even built an entire industry before being granted full and legal citizenship in the United States. Black cinema in the United States reflected the goals and ambitions of the mainstream film industry while also speaking specifically to African American audiences in the discrete narratives ...
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BLACKNESS AND RACIAL MELODRAM IN 1970S MEXICAN CINEMA
2022In the 1970s, a quantitative and qualitative shift occurred in the representation of Black subjects in Mexican cinema. Black characters were given more screen time and leading roles, often in films thematizing interracial romance. The longstanding practice of using blackface to perform Black subjectivity was largely abandoned, and instead, Black talent
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Bastard Allegories: Black British Independent Cinema
Black Camera, 2015This is a study of the founding terms of Black British independent cinema from the 1980s. Looking closely at the work of filmmaker John Akomfrah, and cultural theorists such as Stuart Hall, this essay examines the complex imbrication of form and theory in that cinema, paying particular attention to Hall’s emphasis on the motif of “articulation” and how,
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