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- Title
I. "Black is..." and That's the Beauty of It: Ten Propositions Concerning the Visible and the Visual, in Consideration of Black Cinema and Black Visual Culture<sup> 1 </sup>.
- Authors
Harris, Keith M.
- Abstract
I This section comprises several manifestos and programmatic statements of cinematic importance for consideration. i A reprint of Keith M. Harris's article from I Black Camera i 8.1's Close-Up on Black Film and Black Visual Culture titled "'Black is..'. and That's the Beauty of It: Ten Propositions Concerning the Visible and the Visual, in Consideration of Black Cinema and Black Visual Culture"; Jess Brooks's "Black Best Friend: A Manifesto" from Medium.com; and Cauleen Smith's manifesto "for the Association for the Advancement of Cinematic Creative Maladjustment". In consideration of black film, film blackness transfers focus from the duty of film to produce a proper image of race, provide mimetic representation and its attendant positive/negative prescriptions of fidelity and responsibility to an immanent category of race, to black film as part of black expressivity and visuality is performative, creative and generative in the production of identities, knowledge, and new paradigms of the visual. In consideration of black film, film blackness transfers focus from the duty of film to produce a proper image of race, provide mimetic representation and its attendant positive/negative prescriptions of fidelity and responsibility to an immanent category of race, to black film as part of black expressivity and visuality is performative, creative and generative in the production of identities, knowledge, and new paradigms of the visual.
- Subjects
BLACK films; 20TH century art; AFRICAN American actors; ADOLESCENT friendships; LUST; FOOD sovereignty; SUSPENSE fiction
- Publication
Black Camera: The New Series, 2020, Vol 11, Issue 2, p240
- ISSN
1536-3155
- Publication type
Article