Film Blackness American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film |
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| Author:
| Gillespie, Michael Boyce |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8223-6226-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2016 |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, seeing it not as the representation of the black experience, but as the visual negotiation between film as art and the social construction of race, as well as an interdisciplinary form that enacts black visual and expressive culture.
Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, seeing it not as the representation of the black experience, but as the visual negotiation between film as art and the social construction of race, as well as an interdisciplinary form that enacts black visual and expressive culture.