Violence, visual culture, and the black male body / / Cassandra Jackson
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| Autore: |
Jackson Cassandra <1972->
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| Titolo: |
Violence, visual culture, and the black male body / / Cassandra Jackson
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (153 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 700/.452996073 |
| Soggetto topico: | African American men in popular culture |
| African American men - Violence against | |
| Arts, American | |
| Human body - Social aspects - United States | |
| Violence - Social aspects - United States | |
| Visual communication - Social aspects - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-131) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Early Photography and the Cultural Work of Wounds; 2 Photography and the Disabled Black Subject in the Art of Carrie Mae Weems; 3 Fantasies of Wounding: Black Male Bodies in Hip Hop; 5 The Appropriation of Lynching Photography; 6 Seeing Without Looking: Lynching in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture. While scholars have fittingly focused on the ever-present figure of the hypermasculine black male, little consideration has been paid to the wounded black man as a persistent cultural figure. This book considers images of wounded black men on various stages, including early photography, contemporary art, hip hop, and new media. Focusing primarily on photographic images, Jackson explores the wound as a specular moment that media |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Violence, visual culture, and the black male body |
| ISBN: | 1-136-90817-X |
| 1-136-90818-8 | |
| 1-282-91274-7 | |
| 9786612912740 | |
| 0-203-84278-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814750403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; ; 27.