Black Women Shattering Stereotypes (eBook)

A Streaming Revolution

Kay Siebler (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
248 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3601-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Black Women Shattering Stereotypes: A Streaming Revolution focuses on the work, voices, and perspectives of Black women in popular film and television. Kay Siebler argues that within the past five years, in response to the digital age and the number of racist stereotypes being purported in dominant culture, Black women creators are making entertainment media that fights back against these racist and sexist narratives and celebrates the realities of being Black and being a woman in today's world. When Black women are behind the camera, writing, directing, and producing, Siebler finds, the representations of Black women change dramatically in empowering and important ways. Focusing on films and series produced since 2015 that are made by, for, and about Black women, Siebler analyzes the portrayals of Black women and their culture in Bessie, Self Made, Hidden Figures, Harriet, Insecure, Being Mary Jane, Twenties, and Chewing Gum, among others. Siebler intertwines these analyses with in-depth interviews with over one hundred Black women throughout the book, offering a variety of perspectives across the broad spectrum of demographics that areand are notbeing represented in mainstream media.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: African American women • black female stereotypes • black women • Film Studies • Gender and Sexuality • Gender Studies • Media Studies • Race and gender • Race and sexuality • race studies • Television Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-7936-3601-X / 179363601X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7936-3601-0 / 9781793636010