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Celluloid chains : slavery in the Americas through film
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"This multiauthor volume seeks to show how slavery in the Transatlantic World has been depicted in a hundred years of film production in the Americas. Rather than emphasizing North American films e...
"This multiauthor volume seeks to show how slavery in the Transatlantic World has been depicted in a hundred years of film production in the Americas. Rather than emphasizing North American films exclusively, the editors and authors seek to create a dialogic relationship between various filmmakers making movies in and about different countries in the hemisphere. Each contributor concentrates on one film. Among the essays are these: Rudy Alcocer, "Of Slavery and Humanity: Focus, Metaphor and Truth in Werner Herzog's Cobra Verde"; Mamadou Badiane, "Mulattoes and the Challenges of the Third Space in Roble do Olor"; Robert Norrell, "Roots: the Re-making of Africa and Slavery in the American Mind"; Ignacio leaf.
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- edited by Rudyard J. Alcocer, Kristen Block, and Dawn Duke
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- Language
- English
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- First edition
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2018]
- Physical Details
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- xlii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781621903277, 1621903273, 9781621903284, 9781621903284
- OCLC
- on1018054075
- Edition statement from CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: The broken mirror of memory: reflections on the power of slavery films / Rudyard J. Alcocer -- Slavery in service of the revolution in Sergio Giral's El Otro Francisco / Julia C. Paulk -- Roots: the re-making of Africa and slavery in the American mind / Robert J. Norrell -- Inheriting chains: lighting effects in Humberto Solas's Cecilia / Haley Osborn -- Afro-Peruvian Cimarrones: raiding the archives and articulating race / Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- Exoticization, Mestifagem, and Brazilian national consciousness in Carlos Diegues's Quilombo / Ignacio Lopez-Calvo -- Of slavery and humanity: focus, metaphor, and truth in Werner Herzog's Cobra Verde / Rudyard J. Alcocer -- Unshackling the ocean: screening trauma and memory in Guy Deslauriers's Passage du milieu - The Middle Passage / Anny Dominique Curtius -- Mulattos and the challenges of the third space in Roble de Olor/Scent of Oak / Mamadou Badiane -- (Dis)figuring the plantation: discourses of slave space in Lars von Trier's Manderlay / Edward R. Pinuelas -- Exploring the ugly truth: cinema of integration, slavery, and the poetics of beauty in El cimarron / Nemesio Gil and Mirerza Gonzalez-Velez -- Case depart: slavery in Martinique through the lens of comedy / Gladys M. Francis -- Django Unchained: slavery and corrective authenticity in the southern / Dexter Gabriel -- Telling the Tula slave revolt: a creolizing affair with neo-colonial implications / Daniel Arbino -- This film called my back: black pain and painful history in 12 Years a Slave / Janell Hobson -- Exposed on film: the (un) promised land of Nova Scotia in the miniseries The Book of Negroes / Emily Allen Williams -- Conclusion: on film, historiography, and teaching the "experience" of slavery / Kristen Block