Black Masculinity On Film

Author : Jared Sexton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319661704

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Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing by Jared Sexton Pdf

This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President George W. Bush’s 2001 announcement of the War on Terror and President Barack Obama’s 2009 acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. It argues that images of black masculine authority have become increasingly important to the legitimization of contemporary policing and its leading role in the maintenance of an antiblack social order forged by racial slavery and segregation. It examines a constellation of film and television productions—from Antoine Fuqua’s Training Day to John Lee Hancock’s The Blind Side to Barry Jenkin's Moonlight—to illuminate the contradictory dynamics at work in attempts to reconcile the promotion of black male patriarchal empowerment and the preservation of gendered antiblackness within political and popular culture.

Author : Keith Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135496074

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Boys, Boyz, Bois by Keith Harris Pdf

Boys, Boyz, Bois concerns questions of ethics, gender and race in popular American images, national discourse and cultural production by and about black men. The book proposes an ethics of masculinity, as ethnics refers to a system of morality and valuation and as ethics refers to a care of the self and ethical subject formation. The texts of analysis include recent films by black/African American filmmakers, gangsta rap and hip-hop and black star persona: texts ranging from Blaxploitation and New Black Cinema to contemporary music video to autobiography and the public image of Sidney Poitier. The book is a significant contribution to cultural studies and gender studies and critical race theory. What is distinctive about the book is the question of ethics as a question of race and gender.

Author : Richard Majors,Janet Mancini Billson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780671865726

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Cool Pose by Richard Majors,Janet Mancini Billson Pdf

Traces the history of black men in America using a tough-guy image to obscure their anger and disappointment over their roles in society back to their origins in Africa and the slave era.

Author : Ronald L. Jackson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791466254

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Scripting the Black Masculine Body by Ronald L. Jackson Pdf

Traces the origins of Black body politics in the United States and its contemporary manifestations in hip-hop music and film.

Author : Daniel O'Brien
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137593238

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Black Masculinity on Film by Daniel O'Brien Pdf

This book provides wide-ranging commentary on depictions of the black male in mainstream cinema. O’Brien explores the extent to which counter-representations of black masculinity have been achieved within a predominately white industry, with an emphasis on agency, the negotiation and malleability of racial status, and the inherent instability of imposed racial categories. Focusing on American and European cinema, the chapters highlight actors (Woody Strode, Noble Johnson, Eddie Anderson, Will Smith), genres (jungle pictures, westerns, science fiction) and franchises (Tarzan, James Bond) underrepresented in previous critical and scholarly commentary in the field. The author argues that although the characters and performances generated in these areas invoke popular genre types, they display complexity, diversity and ambiguity, exhibiting aspects that are positive, progressive and subversive. This book will appeal to both the academic and the general reader interested in film, race, gender and colonial issues.

Author : Stephan Jaskolla
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668981843

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The Construction of Black Masculinity in Blaxploitation and Hood Movies by Stephan Jaskolla Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine", language: English, abstract: In this term paper the construction of black masculinity and black male characters in Blaxploitation movies and Hood Movies will be compared to analyze if the two periods of filmmaking have created another view on the black masculine. To make the two genres comparable in such a limited scope I will focus on two movies, each of which can be regarded as prototypical for its genre. Considering the ‘Blaxploitation’ genre I will focus on the movie Shaft (1971) by Gordon Parks. The Hood movie I chose is John Singleton’s Boyz N The Hood (1991), which will be called Boyz in the rest of this term paper. Anybody who has seen movies featuring black male protagonists in major roles – like Bad Boys or Django Unchained – might have noticed that often those black male characters are depicted in certain and often clichéd ways. This depiction can be described by another term which is ‘construction’. What those films actually do is a construction of a black masculinity through means of acting, filming techniques or even the choice of the actor, especially with regard to his outward appearance. The black male character has been a very central figure in American literature and movies for a long time. Considering movies it can be argued that for roughly one century there have been constructions of African-American males in American cinema starting with the highly racist film The Birth of a Nation. Nowadays virtually everybody will know movies that feature black masculine main protagonists. Two periods which can be considered as highly influential with regard to the construction of black masculinity are the early seventies and the early nineties because they originated two important genres. These two genres will be referred to as ‘Blaxploitation’ and ‘hood movie’ throughout this text.

Author : Riché Richardson
Publisher : New Southern Studies
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820328901

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Black Masculinity and the U.S. South by Riché Richardson Pdf

This pathbreaking study of region, race, and gender reveals how we underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black masculinity at the national level. Starting with such well-known caricatures as the Uncle Tom and the black rapist, Richardson investigates a range of pathologies of black masculinity.

Author : Bell Hooks
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415969271

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We Real Cool by Bell Hooks Pdf

Discusses what black males fear most, their longing for intimacy, the pitfalls of patriarchy, and the destruction of oppression through redemption and love.

Author : Thelma Golden,Whitney Museum of American Art,Elizabeth Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034282684

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Black Male by Thelma Golden,Whitney Museum of American Art,Elizabeth Alexander Pdf

Author : LaToya Jefferson-James
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793615305

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Masculinity Under Construction by LaToya Jefferson-James Pdf

Masculinity Under Construction: Literary Re-Presentations of Black Masculinity in the African Diaspora analyzes Black male identity as constructed by Black male authors. In each chapter, Dr. Jefferson-James discusses a different "construction" or definition of masculine identity produced by men of African descent on the continent of Africa, in the Caribbean, and in North America. Combing through the works of James Baldwin, Chinua Achebe, Ralph Ellison, George Lamming, and other pan-African authors, Masculinity Under Construction argues for the importance of analyzing the historical context that contributed to the formation of Black male identity. Additionally, Dr. Jefferson-James draws a relationship between Black feminists and writers, such as Anna Julia Cooper and her contemporaries, and these works of literature viewed as primarily about Black masculinity.

Author : Miles White
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252036620

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From Jim Crow to Jay-Z by Miles White Pdf

This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess. Broadening the significance of hip-hop culture by linking it to other expressive forms within popular culture, Miles White examines how these representations have both encouraged the demonization of young black males in the United States and abroad and contributed to the construction of their identities. From Jim Crow to Jay-Z traces black male representations to chattel slavery and American minstrelsy as early examples of fetishization and commodification of black male subjectivity. Continuing with diverse discussions including black action films, heavyweight prizefighting, Elvis Presley's performance of blackness, and white rappers such as Vanilla Ice and Eminem, White establishes a sophisticated framework for interpreting and critiquing black masculinity in hip-hop music and culture. Arguing that black music has undeniably shaped American popular culture and that hip-hop tropes have exerted a defining influence on young male aspirations and behavior, White draws a critical link between the body, musical sound, and the construction of identity.

Author : Maurice O. Wallace
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822383796

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Constructing the Black Masculine by Maurice O. Wallace Pdf

In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history—from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 1775 to the 1990s choreographies of modern dance genius Bill T. Jones—Constructing the Black Masculine maps black men’s historical efforts to negotiate the frequently discordant relationship between blackness and maleness in the cultural logic of American identity. Maurice O. Wallace draws on an impressive variety of material to investigate the survivalist strategies employed by black men who have had to endure the disjunction between race and masculinity in American culture. Highlighting their chronic objectification under the gaze of white eyes, Wallace argues that black men suffer a social and representational crisis in being at once seen and unseen, fetish and phantasm, spectacle and shadow in the American racial imagination. Invisible and disregarded on one hand, black men, perceived as potential threats to society, simultaneously face the reality of hypervisibility and perpetual surveillance. Paying significant attention to the sociotechnologies of vision and image production over two centuries, Wallace shows how African American men—as soldiers, Freemasons, and romantic heroes—have sought both to realize the ideal image of the American masculine subject and to deconstruct it in expressive mediums like modern dance, photography, and theatre. Throughout, he draws on the experiences and theories of such notable figures as Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and James Baldwin.

Author : David L. Moody
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780739188385

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The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television by David L. Moody Pdf

The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television examines the intricacies of race, representation, Black masculinity, sexuality, class, and color in American cinema and television. Black images on the silver screen date back to the silent film era, yet these films and television programs presented disturbing images of African American culture, and regrettably, many early films and small screen programs portrayed Black characters in demeaning and stereotypical roles. In order to fully analyze the roles of Black actors and actresses in film and television, Moody addresses the following issues: the historical significance of the term “race films”; female Black identities and constructs; queerness and Black masculinity; Black male identities; and Black buffoonery in film and television.

Author : Katharine Bausch
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774863759

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He Thinks He's Down by Katharine Bausch Pdf

The end of the Second World War saw a “crisis of white masculinity” brought on by social change. As a result, several prominent white male pop culture figures sought out and appropriated African American cultural trappings to benefit from what they believed were powerful black masculinities. In He Thinks He’s Down, Katharine Bausch draws on case studies from three genres – the writings of Norman Mailer and Jack Kerouac, advertising and aesthetics in Playboy magazine, and action narratives of Blaxploitation films – to illustrate how each one engaged with black tropes while simultaneously doing little to change the racial and gendered stereotypes that perpetuated the power of white male privilege.

Author : Keith Malone Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African American men in motion pictures
ISBN : 0493631666

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Boys, Boyz, Boies by Keith Malone Harris Pdf