Moonlight - Screening Black Queer Youth

List of contents

Introduction 1. ‘A Film We’ve Been Waiting For’: The Social and Cultural Contexts of Moonlight 2. Moonlight and Black Masculinity on Screen 3. Moonlight as Queer Cinema 4. Watching Moonlight: Narrative, Setting and Symbolism 5. Empathy, Universality and Black Boyhood in Moonlight Epilogue Love and Moonlight

About the author

Maria Flood is Lecturer in World Cinema at Liverpool University. She is the author of France, Algeria and the Moving Image (2017) and has published on Francophone cinemas of the Maghreb, world cinema and political violence and terrorism and ethics in documentary film.

Summary

This book helps readers understand Moonlight’s profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins, and the film’s adoption and disruption of traditional coming-of-age themes through the specific prism of Chiron’s childhood and youth.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Flood, Flood Maria
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780367151393
• ISBN: 978-0-367-15139-3
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: Cinema and Youth Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Humanities, Film history, theory or criticism