- Description
- viii, 114 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book helps readers understand Moonlight's profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins, and the film's adoption and disruption of traditional coming-of-age themes through the specific prism of Chiron's childhood and youth. Moonlight (2016) is an intensely moving and poetically rendered coming-of-age story about a young gay Black boy, Chiron. Highly praised by both critics and audiences internationally, it garnered a surprise Best Picture win at the 2017 Academy Awards, enshrining its significance within a global cinematic canon. This book provides an account of how Moonlight can be situated in relation to African American youth films, contemporary queer cinema and its appeal to youth market and representations of non-normative childhood and adolescence. It analyses the reception of Moonlight in terms of its form and profound emotional impact on spectators offering new visions of African American boyhoods, while also contributing an extended exploration of the social and political context of the film in relation to Obama, Trump, and diversity in filmmaking. Highlighting to students and scholars the powerful emotional pull of Moonlight and why it is a highly significant film, this book is ideal for those interested in critical race studies, queer theory, youth cinema, African American cinema, and LGBTQ cinema"--
- Series Statement
- Cinema and youth cultures
- Uniform Title
- Cinema and youth cultures.
- Subject
- Note
- "Routledge Focus"--from cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 'A film we've been waiting for': the social and cultural contexts of Moonlight -- Moonlight and black masculinity -- Moonlight as queer cinema -- Watching Moonlight: narrative, setting and symbolism -- Empathy, universality, and black boyhood.
- ISBN
- 9780367151393
- 0367151391
- 9781032152066
- 1032152060
- 9780429055294 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021029543
- OCLC
- YBP 2021029543
- Author
Flood, Maria, author.
- Title
Moonlight : screening Black queer youth / Maria Flood.
- Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
- Copyright Date
©2022
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Cinema and youth cultures
Cinema and youth cultures.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
Online version: Flood, Maria. Moonlight Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022 9780429055294 (DLC) 2021029544