How have image-makers of colour explored white societies, cultures and practices? This book takes as its case studies films, TV shows and photography that treat whiteness, in all its complexities, not as an unmarked and naturalised position from which to speak, but as an object of inquiry and sustained scrutiny. International in both authorship and critical scope, Black Image Making and Whiteness disrupts Eurocentric perspectives to ask: what happens when white people are seen as the Other?
Arvustused
'This wide-ranging collection gathers probing explorations of whiteness on film. Its rigorous scholarship and theoretical precision illuminate the impact of white presumptions cinematically but also and mainly show the sustained impressive cumulative impact of the questioning of whiteness by filmmakers and film scholars. A volume fully worthy of its many invocations of the genius of James Baldwin.' * David Roediger teaches American Studies at University of Kansas and is the author of the autobiography An Ordinary White. *
List of figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Thomas Austin
2. Green Like Me
Jane M. Gaines
3. Wheres that gotten us?: Horace Ovés Pressure and the Fallacy of White
Respectability,
Kwame Phillips
4. Black and White in Colour: Looking Across Race in Spike Lees Clockers and
Summer of Sam
Thomas Austin
5. Robbing the stage: Race, Class and Gender in Alice Diops La Mort de
Danton
Thomas Austin
6. Tarrying with Whiteness: Humility and the Indecisive Moment in the Work of
Rosine Mbakam and Johny Pitts
Finn Daniels-Yeomans
7. Whiteness, Gender and Uncomfortable Identification in Jordan Peeles Get
Out
Joy McEntee
8. Estranging Homophilic Perspectives in Contemporary US Cinema:
Blindspotting and Us
Zélie Asava
9. How I May Destroy You Reinvents Rape Television
Caetlin Benson-Allott
10. White is Where you are: Post-imperial Europe and white aesthetics in
Atlanta season 3
James Harvey
11. Im A Virgo: A Critique of White Cultural and Economic Hegemony
Andrew Stubbs-Lacy
12. Steve McQueens Grenfell
Thomas Austin
Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (2023); and co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020).
