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Visitation : the conjure work of black feminist avant-garde cinema
- Title
- Visitation : the conjure work of black feminist avant-garde cinema / Jennifer DeClue.
- Author
- DeClue, Jennifer, 1971-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 228 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In Visitation, Jennifer DeClue shows how Black feminist avant-garde filmmakers draw from historical archives in order to visualize and reckon with violence suffered by Black women in the United States. DeClue argues that these filmmakers-including Kara Walker, Kara Lynch, Tourmaline, and Ja'Tovia Gary-create spaces of mourning and reckoning, rather than voyeurism and pornotropy. Through their use of editing, performance, and cinematic experimentation, these filmmakers intervene in the production of Blackness and activate new ways of seeing Black women and telling their stories. Theorizing these films as a form of conjure work, DeClue shows how these filmmakers raise the specters of Black women from the past and invite them to reveal history from their point of view. In so doing, Black feminist avant-garde filmmakers channel spirits that haunt archives and create cinematic arenas for witnessing Black women battling for survival during pivotal and exceedingly violent moments in US history. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient"--
- Subject
- Womanism > United States
- Feminism and motion pictures > United States
- Experimental films > United States
- African American women motion picture producers and directors
- African American feminists
- Women, Black, in motion pictures
- Feminist film criticism
- Experimental films
- Feminism and motion pictures
- Womanism
- Theories
- Feminism
- Feminists
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The Archive and the Silhouette : Framing Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema -- Reckoning at the Bridge : Space and The Archive of Laura Nelson -- Carrying the Knowledge/Performing the Archive : An Afternoon with Marsha P. Johnson -- Ecstasy and the Archive : A Black Feminist Phenomenology of Freedom.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-838
- ISBN
- 9781478016526
- 1478016523
- 9781478019169
- 1478019166
- 9781478023791 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022026536
- OCLC
- 1301903225
- Author
- DeClue, Jennifer, 1971- author.
- Title
- Visitation : the conjure work of black feminist avant-garde cinema / Jennifer DeClue.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-838