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Jennifer DeClue examines Black feminist avant-garde films from filmmakers including Kara Walker, Tourmaline, and Ja'Tovia Gary that visualize violence suffered by Black women in the United States.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Visitation 1
1. The Archive and the Silhouette: Framing Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema 29
2. Reckoning at the Bridge: Saved and the Archive of Laura Nelson 65
3. Carrying the Knowledge / Performing the Archive: An Afternoon with Marsha P. Johnson 99
4. Ecstasy and the Archive: A Black Feminist Phenomenology of Freedom 143
Coda. On Tenderness 183
Notes 187
Bibliography 211
Index 221

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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 29 November 2022
      ISBN-13 9781478016526
      978-1478016526
      ISBN-10 1478016523
      Also in:
      Film history, theory or criticism Social and cultural history Feminism and feminist theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Jennifer DeClue examines Black feminist avant-garde films from filmmakers including Kara Walker, Tourmaline, and Ja'Tovia Gary that visualize violence suffered by Black women in the United States.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments vii
      Introduction. Visitation 1
      1. The Archive and the Silhouette: Framing Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema 29
      2. Reckoning at the Bridge: Saved and the Archive of Laura Nelson 65
      3. Carrying the Knowledge / Performing the Archive: An Afternoon with Marsha P. Johnson 99
      4. Ecstasy and the Archive: A Black Feminist Phenomenology of Freedom 143
      Coda. On Tenderness 183
      Notes 187
      Bibliography 211
      Index 221

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