{"product_id":"returning-the-gaze-9780822326144","title":"Returning the Gaze","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. This work excavates a wealth of early critical writing on the cinema by black cultural critics, academics, journalists, poets, writers, and film fans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anna Everett moves African American film criticism and commentary from the margins to the center in this innovative, imaginative, and original book. Superbly researched and engagingly written, \u003ci\u003eReturning the Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e shows us the necessity of placing race at the center of the history of the American cinema, while at the same time making it clear that any adequate understanding of African American identity needs to acknowledge the centrality of cinema to the practices and processes of U.S. racial formation.”—George Lipsitz, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Possessive Investment in Whiteness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime Passages \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Everett’s fine book makes an important contribution to our understanding of black cinema, from production to journalism and criticism, as a resistance practice representing every orientation of black culture, from the popular to the political and aesthetic. This one is ‘must’ reading for all interested in black cinema, its issues, and its critical discourse.”—Ed Guerrero, New York University\u003cbr\u003eCompelling and of great critical importance, \u003ci\u003eReturning the Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e makes a major contribution to film studies.”—Dana Polan, University of Southern California\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Returning the Gaze 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Black Newspaper Criticism and the Early Cinema, 1909–1916\u003cbr\u003e 12\u003cbr\u003e 2. \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e and Interventionist Criticism: Resisting Race as Spectacle 59\u003cbr\u003e 3. Cinephilia in the Black Renaissance: New Negro Film Criticism, 1916–1930 107\u003cbr\u003e 4. Black Modernist Dialectics and the New Deal: Accomodationist and Radical Film Criticism, 1930–1940 179\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Recalcitrant Gaze; Critiquing Hollywood in the 1940s 272\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 314\u003cbr\u003e Notes 317\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 333\u003cbr\u003e Index 349","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866010857815,"sku":"9780822326144","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822326144.jpg?v=1722276611","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/returning-the-gaze-9780822326144","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}