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Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens

Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens

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Film StudiesGeneral PsychologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1032508418
ISBN13: 9781032508412
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 13 2024
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens delves into the nuanced character development and narrative themes within the struggles and successes presented in Black films over the last five decades.

In this pioneering book, Katherine Marshall Woods looks at Black cinema from a psychological and psychoanalytic perspective. Focusing on a decade at a time, she charts the development of representation and creative output from the 1980s to the present day. She deftly moves from analyzing depictions of poverty and triumphs to highlighting the importance of cinema in shaping cultural identity while considering racial prejudice and discrimination. Adopting theoretical viewpoints from Freud to bell hooks, Marshall Woods examines the damaging effect on cultural psychology as a result of stereotypical racial tropes, and expertly demonstrates the healing that can be found when one sees oneself represented in an honest light in popular art.

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