Black Evanescence
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-9357-0 (ISBN)
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The earliest films of race were notable for their conviction about what the cinematic image and, eventually, the sound film could proffer: an “authentic” account of race and, specifically, Blackness on screen. Against those suasions Black Evanescence posits a vision of, and for, digital technology that sees its intersections with racial imagery very differently.
This book argues that digital imagery possesses a salutary evanescence. Produced by a technology that does not purport to the indexical, digital media offers images that convey a greater openness or sense of possibility. A signal implication of this is that the racial imagery or meanings of digital media may be defined as part of a still-unfolding process, one that is part of a history that is transforming. Digital cinema includes a concrete link to its referent—in this context, the Black body. Digital modes allow a less “fixed” rendering of Blackness in the wider (white) understanding of race than we have historically seen or that a range of Hollywood works evince.
Peter Lurie is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Richmond, USA. He was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 2009-10 and, in 2015, the Fulbright Senior Scholar in American Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His books include American Obscurantism: History and the Visual in U.S. Literature and Film (2018); Faulkner and Film: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2010, ed. with Ann J. Abadie (2017); and Vision’s Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination (2004).
Introduction: Nascent Evanescence: Photography, Race, and the Modernity of Movement
1. Literary Visibility: Modernist Racial Imaging
2. The Racialized “Film Century”: Blackness Seen Through the Photochemical Index
3. Seeing Claireece Seeing: Film Aesthetics, Poetic Narration, and Visible Selfhood in Lee Daniels’s Precious
4. What Distant Reading Sees of Race
Conclusion: Evanescence Stilled: The Contemporary Visual Encounter
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.9.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 25 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-9357-X / 150139357X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-9357-0 / 9781501393570 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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