Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film

by Michael Boyce Gillespie

Book Overview

In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a representation of the black experience but as a visual negotiation between film as art and the discursivity of race. Gillespie challenges expectations that black film can or should represent the reality of black life or provide answers to social problems. Instead, he frames black film alongside literature,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822362260
• ISBN13: 9780822362265
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"