TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin,Kameelah L.
TI  - Envisioning Black feminist voodoo aesthetics: African spirituality in American cinema 
T2  - Black diasporic worlds: origins and evolutions from new world slaving
SN  - 9781498523295
AV  - PN1995 .E585 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Vodou in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - African Americans and mass media
KW  - Feminism and motion pictures
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion in motion pictures
KW  - Feminist criticism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: Towards a Black feminist voodoo aesthetic --; Vintage Hollywood voodoo: the Black priestess in 1930s cinema --; Mambos, chickens, and blood: disrupting visual pleasure in Alan Parker's Angel heart --; For us, by us: Black feminist narratives of resistance in the independent films of Julie Dash and Kasi Lemmons --; Subversion and entertainment: elegba, trickery, and Black female absence in the Skeleton key --; Voodoo in Disneyland?: spiritual appropriation by the mouse; or imagineered voodoo aesthetics --; Epilogue: "Good wickedry": Beyoncé and the Black feminist voodoo aesthetics of Lemonade; 2; b
N2  - This book interrogates eight contemporary American films to determine what role the use of Voodoo in popular representations has played in the construction of black female imaginaries within the United States. It evaluates how filmmakers employ Voodoo aesthetics to reenact black women's spirituality on screen by engaging themes of body politics, expressions of sexuality, agency, self-determination, and cultural appropriation
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