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

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.

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: Montré Aza Missouri
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2018
• EAN: 9781349554515
• ISBN: 978-1-349-55451-5
• No. of pages: 205
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 12 mm x 217 mm
• Weight: 279 g
• Illustrations: VII, 205 p.
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories