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This book considers the ways in which Black directors, screenwriters, and showrunners contend with the figure of the would-be White ally in contemporary film and television.
List of contents
1. Ally Betrayal: The Performance of White Wokeness in Jordan Peele’s Get Out 2. ‘Skin in the Game’: Black Empowerment and White Antiracist Identity Development in Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman 3. Black Gazes and White Women: Reconfiguring the Female Foursome Formula in Issa Rae’s Insecure and Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It 4. Ally Satire and Accountability in Justin Simien’s Dear White People
About the author
Emily Ruth Rutter is Associate Dean of the Honors College and Associate Professor of English at Ball State University. She is author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry, and Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists. She is co-editor of Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era. Her scholarship appears in African American Review, MELUS, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, among other journals and edited collections.
Summary
This book considers the ways in which Black directors, screenwriters, and showrunners contend with the figure of the would-be White ally in contemporary film and television.
