Black Women Directors / / Christina N. Baker.

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• VerfasserIn: Baker, Christina N.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (96 p.)

Black women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and historical narratives about film have not accounted for the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by highlighting the trajectory of the culturally significant work of Black women directors in the United States, from the under-examined pioneers of the silent era, to the documentarians who sought to highlight the voices and struggles of Black women, and the contemporary Black women directors in Hollywood. Applying a Black feminist perspective, this book examines the ways that Black women filmmakers have made a way for themselves and their work by resisting the dominant cultural expectations for Black women and for the medium of film, as a whole.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Recognizing the Pioneers -- 2 Women of the L.A. Rebellion -- 3 Moving into the Mainstream -- 4 More than Mainstream -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Selected Filmography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR