Envisioning Black feminist voodoo aesthetics: African spirituality in American cinema
Introduction: Towards a Black feminist voodoo aesthetic -- Vintage Hollywood voodoo: the Black priestess in 1930s cinema -- Mambos, chickens, and blood: disrupting visual pleasure in Alan Parker's Angel heart -- For us, by us: Black feminist narratives of resistance in the independent films of...
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Medienart: | Druck Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Veröffentlicht: |
Lanham Boulder New York London
Lexington Books
[2016]
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In: | Jahr: 2016 |
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift: | Black diasporic worlds: origins and evolutions from new world slaving
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normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Angel Heart (Film)
/ Dash, Julie 1952-
/ Softley, Iain 1958-
/ Film
B USA / Film / Wodu (Motiv) / Geschichte 1930-2005 |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Religion in motion pictures
B Feminism and motion pictures B Motion Pictures Religious aspects B Feminist Criticism (United States) B Motion Pictures Social aspects (United States) B Motion Pictures (United States) History B African Americans and mass media B Vodou in motion pictures |
Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: Towards a Black feminist voodoo aesthetic -- Vintage Hollywood voodoo: the Black priestess in 1930s cinema -- Mambos, chickens, and blood: disrupting visual pleasure in Alan Parker's Angel heart -- For us, by us: Black feminist narratives of resistance in the independent films of Julie Dash and Kasi Lemmons -- Subversion and entertainment: elegba, trickery, and Black female absence in the Skeleton key -- Voodoo in Disneyland?: spiritual appropriation by the mouse; or imagineered voodoo aesthetics -- Epilogue: "Good wickedry": Beyoncé and the Black feminist voodoo aesthetics of Lemonade |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 1498523307 |