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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主要作者: Martin, Kameelah L. 1978- (Author)
格式: Print 圖書
語言:English
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出版: Lanham Boulder New York London Lexington Books [2016]
In:Year: 2016
叢編:Black diasporic worlds: origins and evolutions from new world slaving
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Angel Heart (電影) / Dash, Julie 1952- / Softley, Iain 1958- / 電影
B USA / 電影 / 伏都教 (紋樣) / 歷史 1930-2005
Further subjects: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
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總結: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1498523307