{"product_id":"film-blackness-american-cinema-and-the-idea-of-black-film","title":"Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFilm Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a representation of the black experience but as a visual negotiation between film as art and the discursivity of race. Gillespie challenges expectations that black film can or should represent the reality of black life or provide answers to social problems. Instead, he frames black film alongside literature, music, art, photography, and new media, treating it as an interdisciplinary form that enacts black visual and expressive culture. Gillespie discusses the racial grotesque in Ralph Bakshi's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoonskin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1975), black performativity in Wendell B. Harris Jr.'s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChameleon Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1989), blackness and noir in Bill Duke's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDeep Cover\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1992), and how place and desire impact blackness in Barry Jenkins's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMedicine for Melancholy\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(2008). Considering how each film represents a distinct conception of the relationship between race and cinema, Gillespie recasts the idea of black film and poses new paradigms for genre, narrative, aesthetics, historiography, and intertextuality.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46967589536074,"sku":"","price":27.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/9780822362265_8c590813-82d4-4a58-bda7-882a2231a780.jpg?v=1690974599","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/film-blackness-american-cinema-and-the-idea-of-black-film","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}