Afrofuturism in Black Panther (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness
Redaktion: White, Renée T.; Ritzenhoff, Karen A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-making of Blackness, through an interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of Black Panther, discusses the importance of superheroes and the ways in which they are especially important to Black fans. Aside from its global box office success, Black Panther paves the way for future superhero narratives due to its underlying philosophy to base the story on a narrative that is reliant on Afro-futurism. The film's storyline, the book posits, leads viewers to think about relevant real-world social questions as it taps into the cultural zeitgeist in an indelible way. Contributors to this collection approach Black Panther not only as a film, but also as Afrofuturist imaginings of an African nation untouched by colonialism and antiblack racism: the film is a map to alternate states of being, an introduction to the African Diaspora, a treatise on liberation and racial justice, and an examination of identity. As they analyze each of these components, contributors pose the question: how can a film invite a reimagining of Blackness?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793623584
• Artikelnr.: 62664414

Autorenporträt

Renée T. White is provost and executive vice president at The New School. Karen A. Ritzenhoff is professor of communication and women, gender, and sexuality studies at Central Connecticut State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Zeinabu irene Davis
Chapter 1: I Dream a World: Black Panther and the Re-Making of Blackness
Renée T. White
Chapter 2: The Power in Numbers: Ensemble Stunt Performance in Black
Panther and Histories of Practice
Lauren Steiner
Chapter 3: From Expressivity to Equanimity: New Black Action in Black
Panther
Wayne Wong
Chapter 4: Paid the Cost to be the Boss: Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther,
and the Future of the Black Biopic
Mikal J. Gaines
Chapter 5: Let Ayo Have a Girlfriend: Resisting Black Lesbian Erasure on
Twitter
Sarah E. S. Sinwell
Chapter 6: "Tell Me a Story Baba": Black Panther and Wakanda's Foreign
Policy in the Age of Neo-liberalism
Clarence Lusane
Chapter 7: The Underground Railroads as Afrofuturism: Enslaved Blacks that
Imagined Freedom, Future, and Space
dann j. Broyld
Chapter 8: The Evolution of Dora Milaje: Wakanda's Greatest Warriors in
Comics and Film
Josh Truelove
Chapter 9: "The Prince Will Now Have the Strength of the Black Panther
Stripped Away": Reading Disability