Contemporary Black American Cinema Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies [Hardcover]

Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the contributing authors deftly connect interdisciplinary perspectives from American studies, cinema studies, cultural studies, political science, media studies, and Queer theory. This multidisciplinary methodology expands the discursive and interpretive registers of film analysis. From Paul Robesons and Sidney Poitiers star vehicles to Lee Danielss directorial forays, these essays address the career legacies of film stars, examine various iterations of Blaxploitation and animation, question the comedic politics of fat suit films, and celebrate the innovation of avant-garde and experimental cinema.

Introduction-- Mia Mask  1. Paul Robeson and the End of His Movie Career-- by Charles Musser  2. The Burden of the Beautiful Beast: Visualization and the Black Male Body-- by Keith M. Harris  3. Reckless Eyeballing: Coonskin, Film Blackness and the Racial Grotesque-- by Michael B, Gillespie  4. The Measure of Men: Legacies of Poitiers A Piece of the Action-- by Ian Gregory Strachan  5. Bamboozled: In the Mirror of Abjection-- by Ed Guerrero  6. Between Documentary and the Avant-Garde: Exploring the Visual Poetics of Ruins in Christopher Harriss still/here-- by Terri Francis  7. Whos Behind that Fat Suit?: Momma, Medea, Rasputia and the Politics of Cross-Dressing-- by Mia Mask  8. Disneys Improvisation: New Orleans' Second Line, Racial Masquerade and the Reproduction of Whiteness in The Princess and the Frog-- by Sarita McCoy Gregory  9. Shadowboxing: Lee Daniels's Nonrepresentational Cinema-- by Alessandra Raengo&nbls