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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255074603321

Autore

Sexton Jared

Titolo

Black masculinity and the cinema of policing / / Jared Sexton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2017]

�2017

ISBN

9783319661704

3-319-66170-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 199 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

791.4365204108996073

Soggetti

African American men in motion pictures

Race relations in motion pictures

Patriarchy in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Chaos and Opportunity: On Training Day -- Chapter 2. History and Power: On Pride -- Chapter 3. Fantasy and Desire: On Friday Night Lights and Coach Carter -- Chapter 4. Origins and Beginnings: On The Blind Side -- Chapter 5. Comedy and Romance: On Diff’rent Strokes and Webster -- Chapter 6. Shadow and Myth: On Stranger Inside and Moonlight.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President George W. Bush’s 2001 announcement of the War on Terror and President Barack Obama’s 2009 acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. It argues that images of black masculine authority have become increasingly important to the legitimization of contemporary policing and its leading role in the maintenance of an antiblack social order forged by racial slavery and segregation. It examines a constellation of film and television productions—from Antoine Fuqua’s Training Day to John Lee Hancock’s The Blind Side to Barry Jenkin's Moonlight—to illuminate the contradictory dynamics at work in attempts to reconcile the promotion of black male patriarchal empowerment and the preservation of gendered antiblackness within



political and popular culture.