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Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics : African Spirituality in American Cinema.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498523295
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo AestheticsDDC classification:
  • 791.4368299675
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Vintage Hollywood Voodoo -- 2 Mambos, Chickens, and Blood -- 3 For Us, By Us -- 4 Subversion and Entertainment -- 5 Voodoo in Disneyland? -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: By integrating eight contemporary American films to determine the role the use of Voodoo in popular representations in the construction of black female imaginaries, this book evaluates the employment of Voodoo aesthetics to reenact black women's spirituality on screen by engaging with themes such as sexuality, agency, and cultural appropriation.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Vintage Hollywood Voodoo -- 2 Mambos, Chickens, and Blood -- 3 For Us, By Us -- 4 Subversion and Entertainment -- 5 Voodoo in Disneyland? -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

By integrating eight contemporary American films to determine the role the use of Voodoo in popular representations in the construction of black female imaginaries, this book evaluates the employment of Voodoo aesthetics to reenact black women's spirituality on screen by engaging with themes such as sexuality, agency, and cultural appropriation.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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