TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woods,Katherine Marshall
TI  - Black film through a psychodynamic lens
SN  - 9781003399902
U1  - 791.43/652996073 23/eng/20241011
PY  - 2025///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - African Americans in the motion picture industry
KW  - African Americans in motion pictures
KW  - Psychoanalysis and motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
N2  - "Black Cinema 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 analysing 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. From Do The Right Thing, The Color Purple and Malcolm X to contemporary classics like 12 Years a Slave, Black Panther and American Fiction, this book is an essential read for those interested in the intersection between Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Film Theory and African American cultural identity"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003399902
ER  -