Playing patsy: film as public history and the image of enslaved African American women in post-civil rights era cinema

Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis === The goal of this thesis is to understand the relationship between the evolving representations of African American women in post-Civil Rights era films about the Transatlantic slave trade; the portraits these images present of black women and th...

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Main Author:	Mitchell, Amber N.
Other Authors:	Haberski, Raymond J.
Language:	en_US
Published:	2018
Subjects:	public history black feminist theory film history cinema representation african american women American Chattel Slavery Quentin Tarantino Hallie Gerima Steve McQueen Oprah Winfrey
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1805/15327 https://doi.org/10.7912/C26H27

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description	Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis === The goal of this thesis is to understand the relationship between the evolving representations of African American women in post-Civil Rights era films about the Transatlantic slave trade; the portraits these images present of black women and their history; and how these films approach the issues of difficult heritage and re-presenting atrocity in entertainment. Film shapes the ways in which we understand the past, leaving a lifelong impression about historical events and the groups involved. By analyzing the stories, directorial processes, and the public responses to four films of 20th and 21st centuries focused on the controversial historical topic of American chattel slavery and its representation of the most underrepresented and misunderstood victims of the Peculiar Institution, this work will argue that, when supplemented with historiography and criticism rooted in historical thinking, cinematic depictions of the past make history more accessible to the public and serve as a form of public memory, shaping the way the public thinks about our collective past.
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title	Playing patsy: film as public history and the image of enslaved African American women in post-civil rights era cinema
title_short	Playing patsy: film as public history and the image of enslaved African American women in post-civil rights era cinema
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Playing patsy: film as public history and the image of enslaved African American women in post-civil rights era cinema

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