McNelis / Whitehurst Precious

Identity, Adaptation and the African American Youth Film
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-134-81314-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 124 Seiten

Reihe: Cinema and Youth Cultures

This book examines a popular, divisive, and celebrity-endorsed filmic depiction of a troubled African American girl, focusing on the concept of African American youth film and genre hybridity; the adaptation of the film from its source novel; how it deals with issues of identity such as race, gender, and body size; the film’s use of music and pop stars as spectacle; and how the film’s critical reception brought back, and moved beyond, the old debates around positive representation of race.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McNelis, Tim

Whitehurst, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The African American Youth Film and the Problem of Genre

2. Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire: Precious as an Adaptation

3. Not Your Average Teen Heroine: The Identity of Precious

4. "Rough-Cut Diamond" or "Orgy of Prurience"?: Critical Reception and the Return of Representation

Conclusion