Celluloid Chains Slavery in the Americas Through Film

"This multiauthor volume seeks to show how slavery in the Transatlantic World has been depicted in a hundred years of film production in the Americas. Rather than emphasizing North American films exclusively, the editors and authors seek to create a dialogic relationship between various filmmakers making movies in and about different countries in the hemisphere. Each contributor concentrates on one film. Among the essays are these: Rudy Alcocer, "Of Slavery and Humanity: Focus, Metaphor and Truth in Werner Herzog's Cobra Verde"; Mamadou Badiane, "Mulattoes and the Challenges of the Third Space in Roble do Olor"; Robert Norrell, "Roots: the Re-making of Africa and Slavery in the American Mind"; Ignacio L."--

About the author

Rudyard J. Alcocer holds the Forrest and Patsy Shumway Chair of Excellence in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination: Re-reading History.
Kristen Block is an associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit.
Dawn Duke is an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment: Toward a Legacy of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Women Writers.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rudyard Alcocer (Editor), Kristen Block (Editor), Dawn Duke (Editor)
• Publisher: Longleaf Services on Behalf of U of Tennessee Pres
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 16.08.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781621905486
• ISBN: 978-1-62190-548-6
• Pages: 372
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.6 x 2 cm
• Weight (packing): 522 g
• Subjects: Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Film, Kino, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Art & Art Instruction, ART / Film & Video, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino