TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manigault-Bryant,L.
AU  - Lomax,T.
AU  - Duncan,C.
TI  - Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry's Productions
T2  - Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice Series
SN  - 9781137429568
AV  - HQ1190-1194 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Filmography -- Part II Theology, Spirituality, and Black Popular Religious Imaginations -- 1 Tyler Perry Reads Scripture -- 2 Signifying Love and Embodied Relationality: Toward a Womanist Theological Anthropology -- 3 Jesus Will Fix It, After While: The Purpose and Role of Gospel Music in Tyler Perry Productions -- 4 Screening God -- Part III Theorizing Intersecting Identities and (Re)Envisioning Black Womanhood -- 5 "A People That Would Take Care of Ourselves": Tyler Perry's Vision of Community and Gender Relations -- 6 "It Ain't Where You Comin' from, Honey": Class, Social Mobility, and Marriage in Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion -- 7 Mad Black Bitches and Ladylike Saints: Representations of African American Womanhood in Tyler Perry Films -- 8 (Re)Mediating Black Womanhood: Tyler Perry, Black Feminist Cultural Criticism, and the Politics of Legitimation -- Part IV The Politics of Performance -- 9 Pause, Auntie Momma! Reading Religion in Tyler Perry's Fat Drag -- 10 Madea vs. Medea: Agape and the Militarist or Murderous Maternal -- Part V Black Women as Religio-Cultural Capital -- 11 Tyler Perry and the (Mis)Representation of Religious Morality -- 12 "Do You Want to Be Well?" The Gospel Play, Womanist Theology, and Tyler Perry's Artistic Project -- 13 Talking Back and Taking My "Amens" with Me: Tyler Perry and the Narrative Colonization of Black Women's Stories -- Afterword -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
N2  - Tyler Perry has made over half a billion dollars through the development of storylines about black women, black communities and black religion. Yet, a text that responds to his efforts from the perspective of these groups does not exist
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