Moonlight Screening Black Queer Youth Cinema and Youth Cultures Series
Auteur : Flood Maria
This book helps readers understand Moonlight?s profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins and the film?s adoption and disruption of traditional coming-of-age themes through the specific prism of Chiron?s childhood and youth.
Moonlight (2016) is an intensely moving and poetically rendered coming-of-age story about a young gay Black boy, Chiron. Highly praised by both critics and audiences internationally, it garnered a surprise Best Picture win at the 2017 Academy Awards, enshrining its significance within a global cinematic canon. This book provides an account of how Moonlight can be situated in relation to African American youth films, contemporary queer cinema and its appeal to the youth market and representations of non-normative childhood and adolescence. It analyses the reception of Moonlight in terms of its form and profound emotional impact on spectators offerning new visions of African American boyhoods while also contributing an extended exploration of the social and political context of the filmin relation to Obama, Trump and diversity in filmmaking.
Highlighting to students and scholars the powerful emotional pull of Moonlight and why it is a highly significant film, this book is ideal for those interested in critical race studies, queer theory, youth cinema, African American cinema and LGBTQ cinema.
Introduction 1. ‘A Film We’ve Been Waiting For’: The Social and Cultural Contexts of Moonlight 2. Moonlight and Black Masculinity on Screen 3. Moonlight as Queer Cinema 4. Watching Moonlight: Narrative, Setting and Symbolism 5. Empathy, Universality and Black Boyhood in Moonlight Epilogue Love and Moonlight
Maria Flood is Lecturer in World Cinema at Liverpool University. She is the author of France, Algeria and the Moving Image (2017) and has published on Francophone cinemas of the Maghreb, world cinema and political violence and terrorism and ethics in documentary film.
Date de parution : 09-2023
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 09-2021
13.8x21.6 cm
Thèmes de Moonlight :
Mots-clés :
Young Men; Liberty City; Queer cinema; White America; queer theory; Black Queerness; popular culture; Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song; cinema and youth cultures; Blaxploitation Films; youth culture; LGBT Cinema; black cinema; intersectionality; Black Queer; masculinities; Black Gay Men; gender; Black Queer People; cinema and gender; Part III; cinema and race; Whiskey Tango Foxtrot; coming of age; Donald Trump's Election; Barry Jenkins; Black Independent Filmmaking; ‘white-washing’ Oscars; Tongues Untied; Black Queer Youth; Obama Years; Black Queer Men; LGBT Theme; Act III; Black Boys; Film's Narrative Structures; Apple Tv; Dense