Intersecting aesthetics : literary adaptations and cinematic representations of Blackness /

Intersecting aesthetics : literary adaptations and cinematic representations of Blackness / edited by Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron, Ellen C. Scott, Terri Simone Francis, and Robin G. Vander.

"Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations during the twentieth century. Contributors to this collection reveal how Black literary and filmic texts are sites of negotiation...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Regester, Charlene B., 1956- (Editor), Baron, Cynthia (Editor), Scott, Ellen C., 1978- (Editor), Francis, Terri Simone (Editor), Vander, Robin G. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Subjects:
African Americans in motion pictures > History > 20th century.
African Americans in the motion picture industry > History > 20th century.
African American motion picture producers and directors > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Race in motion pictures.
Film adaptations > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: cinematic adaptations representing Blackness / Charlene Regester and Cynthia Baron
  • Chapter 2: Glimmers of hope, dreams deferred, and diminshed desires; early African American literary figures and the cinema industry / Charlene Regester
  • Chapter 3: The Devil's wanga: representations of power and the erotics of Black female planters in "The Love Wanga" (1936) and "The Devil's Daughter" (1939) / Tanya L. Shields
  • Chapter 4: Filmic migrations of the Carmen figure: "Karmen Geï" and its implications for diasporic Black female decolonization / Kimberly Nichelle Brown
  • Chapter 5: Imagining the Haitian revolution in "Lydia Bailey": Kenneth Roberts's 1947 novel and Darryl F. Zanuck's 1952 film / Judith E. Smith
  • Chapter 6: Refusing to be "Somebody's damn maid": an examination of space in Billie Holiday's autobiography and biopic "Lady Sings the Blues" / Charlene Regester
  • Chapter 7: Burbanking bigger and Bette the bitch: "Native son" and "In this our life" at Warner Bros." / Elizabeth Binggeli
  • Chapter 8: Frank Yerby and the art and discipline of racial sublimation / Ellen C. Scott
  • Chapter 9: Adapting Black masculinity in Melvin Van Peebles's "The story of a three day pass" / Priscilla Layne
  • Chapter 10: Black autonomy on screen and off: Gordon Parks's" The learning tree" (1969) and "Shaft" (1971) / Cynthia Baron and Eric Pierson
  • Chapter 11: "Devil in a blue dress": aesthetic strategies that illuminate "Invisibility" and continue Black literary traditions / Cynthia Baron
  • About the contributors
  • Index."

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