Returning the Gaze by Anna Everett
Revises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. This work excavates a wealth of early critical writing on the cinema by black cultural critics, academics, journalists, poets, writers, and film fans.
“Anna Everett moves African American film criticism and commentary from the margins to the center in this innovative, imaginative, and original bookSuperbly researched and engagingly written, Returning the Gaze shows us the necessity of placing race at the center of the history of the American cinema, while at the same time making it clear that any adequate understanding of African American identity needs to acknowledge the centrality of cinema to the practices and processes of U.S. racial formation.”—George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness and Time Passages
“Everett’s fine book makes an important contribution to our understanding of black cinema, from production to journalism and criticism, as a resistance practice representing every orientation of black culture, from the popular to the political and aesthetic. This one is ‘must’ reading for all interested in black cinema, its issues, and its critical discourse.”—Ed Guerrero, New York University
Compelling and of great critical importance, Returning the Gaze makes a major contribution to film studies.”—Dana Polan, University of Southern California
“Everett’s fine book makes an important contribution to our understanding of black cinema, from production to journalism and criticism, as a resistance practice representing every orientation of black culture, from the popular to the political and aesthetic. This one is ‘must’ reading for all interested in black cinema, its issues, and its critical discourse.”—Ed Guerrero, New York University
Compelling and of great critical importance, Returning the Gaze makes a major contribution to film studies.”—Dana Polan, University of Southern California
Anna Everett is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822326144 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822326140 |
| Title | Returning the Gaze |
| Author | Anna Everett |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2001-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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