Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly
Nichele Brown, Terri Simone Francis, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson,
Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E.
Smith Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic
Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural and material
trends that shaped Black film adaptations during the twentieth
century. Contributors to this collection reveal how Black literary
and filmic texts are sites of negotiation between dominant and
resistant perspectives. Their work ultimately explores the effects
racial perspectives have on film adaptations and how race-inflected
cultural norms have influenced studio and independent film
depictions. Several chapters analyze how self-censorship and
industry censorship affect Black writing and the adaptations of
Black stories in early to mid-twentieth-century America. Using
archival material, contributors demonstrate the ways commercial
obstacles have led Black writers and white-dominated studios to
mask Black experiences. Other chapters document instances in which
Black writers and directors navigate cultural norms and material
realities to realize their visions in literary works, independent
films, and studio productions. Through uncovering patterns in Black
film adaptations, Intersecting Aesthetics reveals themes, aesthetic
strategies, and cultural dynamics that rightfully belong to
accounts of film adaptation. The volume considers travelogue and
autobiography sources along with the fiction of Black authors H. G.
de Lisser, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, Frank Yerby, and Walter
Mosley. Contributors examine independent films The Love Wanga
(1936) and The Devil’s Daughter (1939); Melvin Van Peebles's
first feature, The Story of a Three Day Pass (1967); and the
Senegalese film Karmen Geï (2001). They also explore studio-era
films In This Our Life (1942), The Foxes of Harrow (1948), Lydia
Bailey (1952), The Golden Hawk (1952), and The Saracen Blade (1954)
and post-studio films The Learning Tree (1969), Shaft (1971), Lady
Sings the Blues (1972), and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995).
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