Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It!

Karima K. Jeffrey

Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It!
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Country
United States
Published
15 December 2022
Pages
270
ISBN
9781793627032

Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It!

Karima K. Jeffrey

Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It! examines depictions of African-descended women and girls in twentieth and twenty-first century speculative filmmaking. Topics include a discursive analysis of stereotypes; roles garnered by Halle Berry, the only Black woman to receive an Oscar for Best Actress; the promise of characters, relationships and scripts found in works ranging from Altered Carbon, Lovecraft Country, and HBO’s Watchmen series; anda closing chapter that considers the legacy of Black women in Horror. Jeffrey illustrates the ways in which recent texts link this Sci-Fi genre to the trauma endured by people of African descent in the United States of America. In doing so, this book provides a compelling interpretation of popular, prevalent, and recurring images of Black women and girls in American Popular Culture.

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