Description
Book SynopsisThis culturally and politically timely collection examines new Black films and moving images that have, once again, excited and possibly shifted the global media landscape.
At a moment some scholars have described as post-post-racial, Black Cinema & Visual Culture provides new, urgent definitions and theories for Black cinema and furthers the development of its critical discourses. Gathering some of the leading scholars and critics in the field, this book enriches and advances the study of Black film and media and its social and political implications at a breakthrough period of expansion in the 21st century. This anthology tackles a wide range of topics from social justice, new media, and Afrofuturism, to race, gender, sexuality, mass incarceration, cultural memory, and Afrosurrealism, exploring the current climate of Black cinematic art that has proven wildly popular with domestic and global audiences, including hit films like Get Out and Marvel's Bl
Table of Contents
1. The Afrofuture & Black Horror in Three Acts 2. Feeling What I’m Seeing, Seeing What I’m Feeling 3. Bury Me in the Ocean: Marvel’s Black Panther and the Politics of Performative Wokeness 4. Listening Rather for the Tone Than the Lyrics: A Memoire of Afrosurrealism 5. The Philosophonic Labor of These Hands 6. To Build a Table: The Rise of Tyler Perry in African American Cinema 7. Streaming for Black Lives 8. Out of Form into Being: Black Women Filmmakers and Experiments in Expansive Cinema 9. Strangers in the Village: Black Independent Cinema in the 21st Century 10. Prison Notes: Cinematic Tales From the Black Gulag 11. Future Rhythms in Afrofuturist Film
