Deadpan : : The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression / / Tina Post.
Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural productionArguing that inexpression as a gesture that acquires distinctive meanings in concert with blackness, Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan—a vaudeville term meaning “dead face”—across litera...
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Post, Tina, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Deadpan : The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression / Tina Post. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource : 63 color illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Minoritarian Aesthetics ; 1 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Some Type of Way -- 1 Subjectivity and Self-Specimenization -- 2 Minimalism and the Aesthetics of Black Threat -- 3 The Opacity Gradient -- 4 Excess and Absence (or, The Negro Believes ______) -- 5 Buster Keaton’s Black Deadpan -- Coda: Steve McQueen Takes It Back -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural productionArguing that inexpression as a gesture that acquires distinctive meanings in concert with blackness, Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan—a vaudeville term meaning “dead face”—across literature, theater, visual and performance art, and the performance of self in everyday life.Tina Post reveals that the performance of purposeful withholding is a critical tool in the work of black culture makers, intervening in the persistent framing of African American aesthetics as colorful, loud, humorous, and excessive. Beginning with the expressionless faces of mid-twentieth-century documentary photography and proceeding to early twenty-first-century drama, this project examines performances of blackness’s deadpan aesthetic within and beyond black embodiments, including Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Neighbors, as well as Buster Keaton’s signature character and Steve McQueen’s restitution of the former’s legacy within the continuum of Black cultural production. Through this varied archive, Post reveals how deadpan aesthetics function in and between opacity and fugitivity, minimalism and saturation, excess and insensibility. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Aesthetics. Black people Race identity. Body language. Facial expression. ART / Performance. bisacsh Anthropomorphism. Awayness. Blackness. Deadpan. Empiricism. Excess. Façade. Fugitivity. Indestructability. Inexpression. Insentience. Keaton. Looming. McQueen. Minimalism. Minstrel. Modernity. Monochrome. Objecthood. Obscurity. Opacity. Portraiture. Respectability. Riddle. Sheerness. Specimen. Stereotype. Subjectivity. Theatrical. Threat. Transparency. affect. gesture. performance. resistance. visuality. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023 9783111318103 ZDB-23-DPK Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2023 English 9783111319032 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110751635 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479811229.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479811229 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479811229/original |
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