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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Minoritarian Aesthetics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 63 color illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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