Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing

Jared Sexton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXVII, 199 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-66169-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Jared Sexton teaches African American Studies and Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He is author of Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism.

Chapter 1. Chaos and Opportunity: On Training Day.- Chapter 2. History and Power: On Pride.- Chapter 3. Fantasy and Desire: On Friday Night Lights and Coach Carter.- Chapter 4. Origins and Beginnings: On The Blind Side.- Chapter 5. Comedy and Romance: On Diff'rent Strokes and Webster.- Chapter 6. Shadow and Myth: On Stranger Inside and Moonlight.

"Sexton's book provides a fresh, renewed discussion on the cinematic representation of black masculinity in an antiblack society during the twenty-first century. Placed in the context of the historical subjugation of black communities, the work provides an expansive analysis of both the representations and cultural politics that define black masculinity in media." (Kameron J. Copeland, Men and Masculinities, Vol. 22 (4), 2019)

Erscheinungsdatum	01.12.2017
Zusatzinfo	XXVII, 199 p. 34 illus., 30 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	352 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Schlagworte	African American Culture • American Cinema • American global hegemony • anti-black matrix • Black Freedom Struggle • black male agency • black male patriarchal empowerment • Black Power • Cultural Studies • culture and gender • Films, cinema • gendered anti-blackness • Gender studies: men & boys • Gender studies: men & boys • History of the Americas • Literature, Cultural and Media Studies • Longue Durée • Men's Studies • neoconservative colorblindness • neoliberal multiculturalism • New Negro • Popular science • Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies • post-Civil rights historical periodization • representations of black masculinity • slave society • society & culture: general • Society & culture: general • us history
ISBN-10	3-319-66169-8 / 3319661698
ISBN-13	978-3-319-66169-8 / 9783319661698
Zustand	Neuware