Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls
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African-American Adolescent Girls
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Black Feminist Criticism
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Feminist
Halle Berry
Pop Culture
Womanist Criticism
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- ISBN 9781793627032
- Weight: 549g
- Dimensions: 160 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It! examines depictions of African-descended women and girls in twentieth and twenty-first century filmmaking. Topics include a discursive analysis of stereotypes; roles garnered by Halle Berry, the only Black woman to receive an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role; the promise of characters, relationships, and scripts found in works ranging from Altered Carbon, Lovecraft Country, and HBO’s Watchmen series; and a closing chapter that considers the legacy of Black women in horror. Jeffrey-Legette illustrates the ways in which recent texts explore the trauma endured by people of African descent in the United States of America in evocative ways. In doing so, she provides a compelling interpretation of prevalent, well-received, and recurring images of Black women and girls in American popular culture.
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette is associate professor of English at Hampton University.
