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Envisioning Black feminist voodoo aesthetics : African spirituality in American cinema
- Title
- Envisioning Black feminist voodoo aesthetics : African spirituality in American cinema / Kameelah L. Martin.
- Author
- Martin, Kameelah L., 1978-
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- xlviii, 207 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Black diasporic worlds: origins and evolutions from new world slaving
- Subject
- Vodou in motion pictures
- Motion pictures > United States > History
- African Americans and mass media
- Feminism and motion pictures
- Motion pictures > Religious aspects
- Religion in motion pictures
- Feminist criticism > United States
- Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States
- Feminist criticism
- Motion pictures
- Motion pictures > Social aspects
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-194) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Towards a Black feminist voodoo aesthetic -- Vintage Hollywood voodoo: the Black priestess in 1930s cinema -- Mambos, chickens, and blood: disrupting visual pleasure in Alan Parker's Angel heart -- For us, by us: Black feminist narratives of resistance in the independent films of Julie Dash and Kasi Lemmons -- Subversion and entertainment: The presence of Black female absence in the Skeleton key -- Voodoo in Disneyland?: spiritual appropriation by the mouse; or imagineered voodoo aesthetics -- Epilogue: "Good wickedry": Beyoncé and the Black feminist voodoo aesthetics of Lemonade.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-293
- ISBN
- 9781498523288
- 1498523285
- LCCN
- 2016030804
- OCLC
- 953708483
- Author
- Martin, Kameelah L., 1978- author.
- Title
- Envisioning Black feminist voodoo aesthetics : African spirituality in American cinema / Kameelah L. Martin.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Black diasporic worlds: origins and evolutions from new world slaving
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-194) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-293MFL 16-5497