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050 1 0 _aPN1995
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100 1 _aMartin, Kameelah L.,
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245 1 0 _aEnvisioning Black feminist voodoo aesthetics :
_bAfrican spirituality in American cinema /
_cKameelah L. Martin.
260 _aLanham :
_bLexington Books,
_c(c)2016.
300 _a1 online resource.
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490 0 _aBlack diasporic worlds: origins and evolutions from new world slaving
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505 0 0 _aIntroduction: Towards a Black feminist voodoo aesthetic --
_tVintage Hollywood voodoo: the Black priestess in 1930s cinema --
_tMambos, chickens, and blood: disrupting visual pleasure in Alan Parker's Angel heart --
_tFor us, by us: Black feminist narratives of resistance in the independent films of Julie Dash and Kasi Lemmons --
_tSubversion and entertainment: elegba, trickery, and Black female absence in the Skeleton key --
_tVoodoo in Disneyland?: spiritual appropriation by the mouse; or imagineered voodoo aesthetics --
_tEpilogue: "Good wickedry": Beyoncé and the Black feminist voodoo aesthetics of Lemonade.
520 0 _aThis 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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650 0 _aVodou in motion pictures.
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans and mass media.
650 0 _aFeminism and motion pictures.
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_xReligious aspects.
650 0 _aReligion in motion pictures.
650 0 _aFeminist criticism
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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