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Expanding the Black Film Canon - Race and Genre across Six Decades (Paperback)
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Expanding the Black Film Canon - Race and Genre across Six Decades (Paperback)
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If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a Slave and
Moonlight to Get Out, Black Panther, and BlackkKlansman tells us
anything, it might be that there's no such thing as "black film"
per se. This book is especially timely, then, in expanding our idea
of what black films are and, going back to the 1960s, showing us
new and interesting ways to understand them. When critics and
scholars write about films from the Blaxploitation movement-such as
Cotton Comes to Harlem, Shaft, Superfly, and Cleopatra Jones-they
emphasize their importance as films made for black Audiences.
Consequently, Lisa Doris Alexander points out, a film like the
highly popular, Oscar-nominated Blazing Saddles-costarring and
co-written by Richard Pryor-is generally left out of the discussion
because it doesn't fit the profile of what a black film of the
period should be. This is the kind of categorical thinking that
Alexander seeks to broaden, looking at films from the 60s to the
present day in the context of their time. Applying insights from
black feminist thought and critical race theory to one film per
decade, she analyzes what each can tell us about the status of
black people and race relations in the United States at the time of
its release. By teasing out the importance of certain films
excluded from the black film canon, Alexander hopes to expand that
canon to include films typically relegated to the category of
popular entertainment-and to show how these offer more nuanced
representations of black characters even as they confront, negate,
or parody the controlling images that have defined black filmic
characters for decades.
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