Disrupting Enslavist Suture : Black Film as a Cinema of Displeasure.
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
Abstract
Drawing from Afro-pessimist and feminist film theory, the article proposes a rethinking of theories of racialization and Blackness in and through film. Through a critique of film theories related to the concept of suture and its models of pleasure, identification and subjectivation, the article shows why Blackness in film must not simply be considered through authentic representation or progressive production, but in terms of a disruption of black symbolic death. This disruption is theorized as a cinema of displeasure and irritation, aspects of which will be exemplified with a short consideration of the movie Suture.
Subjects
Suture
;
enslavism
;
Black symbolic death
;
politics of displeasure
;
critical race theory
;
Black film
Institution
Type
journal article
Journal/Edited collection
Band
2
Issue
1
Start page
60
End page
76
Secondary publication
No
Language
German
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