Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film - Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity

Informationen zum Autor Montré Aza Missouri is an Associate Professor in Film at Howard University, USA, where she teaches Film Directing, Scriptwriting and Film Studies courses. She is also the Founder of Parallel Film Collective that produces, distributes and promotes local and global independent film. Klappentext Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film examines the transformation of the stereotypical 'tragic mulatto' from tragic to empowered, as represented in independent and mainstream cinema. The author suggests that this transformation is through the character's journey towards African-based religions. Zusammenfassung Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film examines the transformation of the stereotypical 'tragic mulatto' from tragic to empowered! as represented in independent and mainstream cinema. The author suggests that this transformation is through the character's journey towards African-based religions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Womanism and Womanist Gaze 2. Beauty as Power: In/visible Woman and Womanist Film in Daughters of the Dust 3. Passing Strange: Voodoo Queens and Hollywood Fantasy in Eve's Bayou 4 I'll Fly Away: Baadasssss Mamas and Third Cinema in Sankofa 5. Not Another Westside Story: Nuyorican Women and New Black Realism in I Like It Like That 6. It Is Easy Being Green: Disney's Post-Racial Princess and Black Magic Conclusion: New Black Aesthetic and New Black Wave Bibliography Index

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Womanism and Womanist Gaze
2. Beauty as Power: In/visible Woman and Womanist Film in Daughters of the Dust
3. Passing Strange: Voodoo Queens and Hollywood Fantasy in Eve's Bayou
4 I'll Fly Away: Baadasssss Mamas and Third Cinema in Sankofa
5. Not Another Westside Story: Nuyorican Women and New Black Realism in I Like It Like That
6. It Is Easy Being Green: Disney's Post-Racial Princess and Black Magic
Conclusion: New Black Aesthetic and New Black Wave
Bibliography
Index

Product details

• Authors: Montre Aza Missouri, Montré Aza Missouri
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2015
• EAN: 9781137454171
• ISBN: 978-1-137-45417-1
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, The arts: general issues, Arts, Film History, Ethnicity, Gender studies, gender groups, Ethnicity Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Film and Television Studies, Film and TV History, Screen Studies, Motion pictures—History, Motion pictures and television, Film history, theory & criticism, African Culture, Ethnology—Africa, Film history, theory or criticism, cinema;film;Hollywood;women