{"product_id":"film-blackness-9780822362050","title":"Film Blackness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This astonishingly comprehensive, compact book does nothing less than synthesize nearly the entirety of thought to date on black cinema, blackness in the cinema, and scholarship in this vital area of film studies. . . . Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- G. A. Foster * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“A necessary book. \u003ci\u003eFilm Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e gives us an inspired sense of a much-needed analysis of race in film, an analysis that has so far—true to form—eluded us.” -- Courtney R. Baker * Cinema Journal *\u003cbr\u003e“This book blew my mind.... Michael Boyce Gillespie’s \u003ci\u003eFilm Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e sparks a necessary conversation about the art of Black film and its indefinable quality. He invites the reader to challenge themselves to perceive all Black film and art as individually distinct pieces of an endless puzzle of Blackness. Reader Meter: Five Stars.\" -- Mercedes K. Milner * Write or Die Chicks *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. We Insist: The Idea of Black Film  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Reckless Eyeballing: \u003ci\u003eCoonskin\u003c\/i\u003e and the Racial Grotesque  17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Smiling Faces: \u003ci\u003eChameleon Street\u003c\/i\u003e and Black Performativity  51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Voices Inside (Everything is Everything): \u003ci\u003eDeep Cover\u003c\/i\u003e and Modalities of Noir Blackness  83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Black Maybe: \u003ci\u003eMedicine for Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e, Place, and Quiet Becoming  119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Destination Out  157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  223","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406097686871,"sku":"9780822362050","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822362050.jpg?v=1730494517","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/film-blackness-9780822362050","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}