An edition of Representing Blackness (1997)
Representing Blackness
Issues in Film and Video (Rutgers Depth of Field Series)
By Valerie Smith
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Publish Date
April 1997
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Language
eng
Pages
245
Description:
The essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independent cinema. This volume includes seminal essays on racial stereotypes, trenchant critiques of that disclosure, original essays on important directors such as Haile Gerima and Charles Burnett, and an insightful discussion of black gay and lesbian film and video.