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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Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
Langue: | Anglais |
Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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Publié: |
Lanham Boulder New York London
Lexington Books
[2016]
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Dans: | Année: 2016 |
Collection/Revue: | Black diasporic worlds: origins and evolutions from new world slaving
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Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Angel Heart (Film)
/ Dash, Julie 1952-
/ Softley, Iain 1958-
/ Film
B USA / Film / Vaudou (Motif) / Histoire 1930-2005 |
Sujets non-standardisés: | 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 |
Résumé: | 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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Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 1498523307 |