{"product_id":"expanding-the-black-film-canon-race-and-genre-across-six-decades-paperback-softback-9780700628407","title":"Expanding the Black Film Canon; Race and Genre Across Six Decades (Paperback \/ softback) 9780700628407","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eExpanding the Black Film Canon\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace and Genre Across Six Decades\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLisa Doris Alexander (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780700628407\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 August 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.4 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eExpanding the Black Film Canon\u003c\/i\u003e Lisa Doris Alexander utilizes historical contextualization and applicable theory to produce a valuable analysis of individual films and genres with African American representation of the past sixty years.\" - Gerald R. Butters Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Manhood on the Silent Screen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eExpanding the Black Film Canon: Race and Genre across Six Decades\u003c\/i\u003e by Lisa Doris Alexander offers a significant contribution to black film studies. This is the first sweeping book to cover a fifty-plus year history of black cinema. \u003ci\u003eExpanding the Black Film Canon\u003c\/i\u003e provides scholars the opportunity to scrutinize and debate black films that have been oft overlooked. Alexander provides a close textual analysis of films, characters, and genres in each decade. While she does discuss mainstream black films, her book is a significant departure from previous ones because of the scope and attention she gives to the finer points of those films that have been underrepresented in black film scholarship. \u003ci\u003eExpanding the Black Film Canon\u003c\/i\u003e not only opens the possibilities for future research on the films Alexander carefully explores but also continues a dialogue that challenges the ways scholars and others think about, view, and scrutinize black films. Her analysis is astute and insightful and makes a unique contribution to film studies in general.\" - Yvonne D. Sims, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIf the sheer diversity of recent hits from \u003ci\u003eTwelve Years a Slave\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMoonlight\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eGet Out\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Panther\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlackkKlansman\u003c\/i\u003e tells us anything, it might be that there’s no such thing as “black film” per se. This book is especially timely, then, in expanding our idea of what black films are and, going back to the 1960s, showing us new and interesting ways to understand them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen critics and scholars write about films from the Blaxploitation movement—such as \u003ci\u003eCotton Comes to Harlem\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShaft\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSuperfly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCleopatra Jones\u003c\/i\u003e—they emphasize their importance as films made for black Audiences. Consequently, Lisa Doris Alexander points out, a film like the highly popular, Oscar-nominated \u003ci\u003eBlazing Saddles\u003c\/i\u003e—costarring and co-written by Richard Pryor—is generally left out of the discussion because it doesn’t fit the profile of what a black film of the period should be. This is the kind of categorical thinking that Alexander seeks to broaden, looking at films from the 60s to the present day in the context of their time. Applying insights from black feminist thought and critical race theory to one film per decade, she analyzes what each can tell us about the status of black people and race relations in the United States at the time of its release.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy teasing out the importance of certain films excluded from the black film canon, Alexander hopes to expand that canon to include films typically relegated to the category of popular entertainment—and to show how these offer more nuanced representations of black characters even as they confront, negate, or parody the controlling images that have defined black filmic characters for decades.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComing Attractions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. I Ain'\u003cbr\u003et Fit to Live with No More: Nothing But a Man Revisited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. \"Hey, Where Are the White Women at?\": The Presentation of Racism and Resistance in Blazing Saddles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Harlem Nights, Awkward Framing, and Complicated Gender Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Who'\u003cbr\u003es the Real Gangsta?: The Glass Shield and the Politics of Black Communities and Police Relations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. \"If You'\u003cbr\u003ere Going to Tell People the Truth, Make Them Laugh\": C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America as Mockumentary and Truth-Telling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Ladies First: Ava DuVernay and Black-Female-Centered Narratives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Who'\u003cbr\u003es the Hero of the Piece?: Hollywood'\u003cbr\u003es Representation of Jackie Robinson'\u003cbr\u003es Legacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Are We Allowed to Be Children?: Black Teen Films, Trauma, and the Race to Adulthood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePost-Credit Sequence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530995659032,"sku":"9780700628407","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/expanding-the-black-film-canon-race-and-genre-across-six-decades-paperback-softback-9780700628407","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}