Description
In Haunted Life, David Marriott examines the complex interplay between racial fears and anxieties and the political-visual cultures of suspicion and state terror. He compels readers to consider how media technologies are "haunted" by the phantom of racial slavery. Through examples from film and television, modernist literature, and philosophy, he shows how the ideological image of a brutal African past is endlessly recycled and how this perpetuation of historical catastrophe stokes our nation's race-conscious paranoia.
Author: David Marriott
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 03/27/2007
Pages: 293
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.97h x 7.49w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9780813540283
ISBN10: 0813540283
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
Drawing on a range of comparative readings by writers, theorists, and filmmakers, including John Edgar Wideman, Frantz Fanon, Richard Wright, Issac Julien, Alain Locke, and Sidney Poitier, Haunted Life is a bold and original exploration of the legacies of black visual culture and the political, deeply sexualized violence that lies buried beneath it.
Author: David Marriott
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 03/27/2007
Pages: 293
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.97h x 7.49w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9780813540283
ISBN10: 0813540283
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies