{"product_id":"celluloid-chains-slavery-in-the-americas-through-film-9781621905486","title":"Celluloid Chains: Slavery in the Americas through Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing a variety of disciplinary perspectives and analytical approaches,\u003ci\u003e Celluloid Chains\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive volume to date on films about slavery. This collection examines works from not only the United States but elsewhere in the Americas, and it attests to slavery’s continuing importance as a source of immense fascination for filmmakers and their audiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach of the book’s fifteen original essays focuses on a particular film that directly treats the enslavement of Africans and their descendants in the New World. Beginning with an essay on the Cuban film \u003ci\u003eEl otro Francisco \u003c\/i\u003e(1975), Sergio Giral’s reworking of a nineteenth-century abolitionist novel, the book proceeds to examine such works as the landmark miniseries Roots (1977), which sparked intense controversy over its authenticity; Werner Herzog’s \u003ci\u003eCobra Verde\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), which raises questions about what constitutes a slavery film; Guy Deslauriers’s\u003ci\u003e Passage du milieu \u003c\/i\u003e(1999), a documentary-style reconstruction of what Africans experienced during the Middle Passage; and Steve McQueen’s Oscar-winning \u003ci\u003e12 Years a Slave\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), which embodies the tensions between faithfully adapting a nineteenth-century slave narrative and bending it for modern purposes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilms about slavery have shown a special power to portray the worst and best of humanity, and \u003ci\u003eCelluloid Chains \u003c\/i\u003eis an essential guide to this important genre.","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188889379159,"sku":"9781621905486","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/celluloid-chains-slavery-in-the-americas-through-film-9781621905486","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}