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Black Evanescence: Seeing Racial Difference from the Slave Narrative to Digital Media

Autor Peter Lurie
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 sep 2023
From the photographs of Frederick Douglas published with his memoir to the circulation of Twitter hashtags after the murders of Michael Brown and George Floyd, this book argues that African American cultural presence and racial meaning making can be traced along the still-developing arc of visuality. The earliest films of race were notable for their conviction about what the cinematic image and, eventually, the sound film could proffer: an "authentic" account of race and, specifically, Blackness on screen. Against those suasions Black Evanescence posits a vision of, and for, digital technology that sees its intersections with racial imagery very differently.This book argues that digital imagery possesses a salutary evanescence. Produced by a technology that does not purport to the indexical, digital media offers images that convey a greater openness or sense of possibility. A signal implication of this is that the racial imagery or meanings of digital media may be defined as part of a still-unfolding process, one that is part of a history that is transforming. Digital cinema includes a concrete link to its referent-in this context, the Black body. Digital modes allow a less "fixed" rendering of Blackness in the wider (white) understanding of race than we have historically seen or that a range of Hollywood works evince.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501393570
ISBN-10: 150139357X
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 25 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Continues an ongoing and broader scholarly discussion about race and Blackness on screen, while treading new ground in how it departs from and responds to other voices

Notă biografică

Peter Lurie is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Richmond, USA. He was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 2009-10 and, in 2015, the Fulbright Senior Scholar in American Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His books include American Obscurantism: History and the Visual in U.S. Literature and Film (2018); Faulkner and Film: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2010, ed. with Ann J. Abadie (2017); and Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination (2004).

Cuprins

Introduction: Nascent Evanescence: Photography, Race, and the Modernity of Movement 1. Literary Visibility: Modernist Racial Imaging 2. The Racialized "Film Century": Blackness Seen Through the Photochemical Index3. Seeing Claireece Seeing: Film Aesthetics, Poetic Narration, and Visible Selfhood in Lee Daniels's Precious4. What Distant Reading Sees of Race Conclusion: Evanescence Stilled: The Contemporary Visual EncounterIndex