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Black women shattering stereotypes : a streaming revolution
- Title
- Black women shattering stereotypes : a streaming revolution / Kay Siebler.
- Author
- Siebler, Kay
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- ix, 238 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Black Women Shattering Stereotypes: A Streaming Revolution focuses on the work, voices, and perspectives of Black women in popular film and television. Kay Siebler argues that within the past five years, in response to the digital age and the number of racist stereotypes being purported in dominant culture, Black women creators are making entertainment media that fights back against these racist and sexist narratives and celebrates the realities of being Black and being a women in today's world. When Black women are behind the camera, writing, directing, and producing, Siebler finds, the representations of Black women change dramatically in empowering and important ways. Focusing on films and series produced since 2015 that are made by, for, and about Black women, Siebler analyzes the portrayals of Black women and culture in Bessie, Self Made, Hidden Figures, Harriet, Insecure, Being Mary Jane, Twenties, and Chewing Gum, among others. Siebler intertwines these analyses with in-depth interviews with over one hundred Black women throughout the book, offering a variety of perspectives across the broad spectrum of demographics that are--and are not--being represented in mainstream media--back cover.
- Subject
- Women motion picture producers and directors
- African American motion picture producers and directors
- Women television producers and directors
- African American television producers and directors
- Women television writers
- Women, Black, in motion pictures
- Women, Black, in popular culture
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) on television
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Black Women Shattering Stereotypes: A Streaming Revolution -- 1. Natural Hair: A Marker of Black Female Resistance and Empowerment -- 2. #TeamLightSkin versus #TeamDarkSkin -- 3. All the Single Ladies: Sex and the Single Woman -- 4. Black Women Are Not Always Womanist: The Politics of Empowerment -- 5. "I'm Talking to You": Breaking the Fourth Wall -- 6. Funny Women: Laughting With, Not Laughing At -- 7. History Lessons: We Are Strong, Independent Women -- Conclusion: A Reason for Hope -- Appendix I: Quoted Participant Demographies.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-610
- ISBN
- 9781793636003
- 1793636001
- LCCN
- 2021932272
- OCLC
- 1242733839
- Author
- Siebler, Kay, author.
- Title
- Black women shattering stereotypes : a streaming revolution / Kay Siebler.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-610