Boyz N the hood : shifting Hollywood terrain.

Carr, Joi:

ISBN 10: 1433189763 / ISBN 13: 9781433189760

Edité par New York ; Berlin ; Brussels ; Lausanne ; Oxford : Peter Lang [2023]., 2023

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xxvii, 448 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm. Gutes Exemplar - In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young urban black males. Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain is an interdisciplinary examination of this iconic film. Beyond the two historic Academy Award nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Director for John Singleton, the first African American male nominee and the youngest nominee ever in the category, Boyz N the Hood's induction into the Library of Congress National Film Registry by the National Film Preservation Board, speaks to the film's iconic and meaningful impact in film history and American culture. This interdisciplinary approach to the film provides an in-depth critical perspective of Boyz N the Hood, as the embodiment of the blues-how Boyz intimates a world beyond the symbolic world Singleton posits, its fictive stance pivots to a constituent truth in the real world. This book is as much about the filmmaker as it is about the film. It explores John Singleton's cinematic voice and helps explicate his propensity for folk elements in his work (the oral tradition and lore). In addition, the text features critical perspectives from the filmmaker himself and other central figures attached to the production, including a first-hand account of the behind the scenes during production by Steve Nicoladies, Boyz's producer, and an intimate conversation with Shelia Morgan Ward, Singleton's Chief Executive/Business Manager and mother. The text is a critical resource guide and includes Singleton's original screenplay and a range of critical articles and initial movie reviews. -- Contents: List of Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: "Singleton Changed My Life" by Stephanie Allain -- Preface -- Introduction Shifting Hollywood Terrain: The Iconic -- Status of Boyz N the Hood -- PART I. Prologue "I Am an Invisible Man": Boyz and the Literary and Cinematic Imagination -- Boyz Getting Behind Language: Invisibility and the Literary and Cinematic Imagination -- Ellison's Lnvisible Man (1952): Mediating Self-Knowledge Through Messianic Language -- Van Peebles's Sweetback (1971): Invisible Mans Cinematic Appearance -- Boyz in Context: The Streets of the Southland and Invisibility -- Singleton's Cinematic Voice -- Boyz N the Hood: Shifting the Terrain of Urban Cinema -- A "Soulful" Director: An Interview with John Singleton -- Launching Singleton's Career: An Interview with Steve Nicolaides, Producer -- Principal Cast and Crew: Reflective Perspectives on Boyz -- Featured Interviews -- An Actor's Actor: Close up on Boyz with Tyra Ferrell -- Spotlight on Laurence Fishburne: The Treatment with Elvis Mitchell -- PART II. Original Boyz Press Kit -- Original Screenplay: Boyz N the Hood by John Singleton -- PART III. Critical Perspectives on Boyz N the Hood -- Between Apocalypse and Redemption: John Singletons Boyz N the Hood, by Michael Eric Dyson -- Mapping the Hood: The Genealogy of City Space in Boyz N the Hood and Menace II Society, by Paula J. Massood -- Two Takes on Boyz N the Hood, by Thomas Doherty and Jacquie Jones -- "A Gritty Boyz N the Hood Ushers in a New Phase of Cinema," by Kenneth Turan -- "A Chance to Confound Fate," by Janet Maslin -- "Boyz N the Hood (R)," by Desson Howe -- " Boyz N the Hood (R)," by Rita Kempley -- Epilogue -- Boyz and the Blues: A Legacy of Resistance and Hope -- Celebrating the Legacy of John Singleton: A Conversation with Shelia Morgan Ward and Steve Nicolaides. ISBN 9781433189760 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 664.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Boyz N the hood : shifting Hollywood terrain.
• Éditeur: New York ; Berlin ; Brussels ; Lausanne ; Oxford : Peter Lang [2023].
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1433189763
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781433189760
• Reliure: Kt.
• Édition: Second edition.
• État de l'article: Sehr gut
• Poids: 664 grammes
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

This book explores John Singleton's cinematic voice and helps explicate his propensity for the folk elements in his work (the oral tradition and lore).

À propos de l?auteur

Joi Carr, Professor of English and Film Studies at Pepperdine University, Seaver College, is the Director of Film Studies and Creative/Program Director of the Multicultural Theatre Project (an interdisciplinary art-based critical pedagogy); serves as the Associate Director/Research Associate for Codex Charles H. Long Papers Project, Moses Mesoamerican Archive, Harvard University and Visiting Scholar/Visiting Professor at Harvard Divinity School. She received her PhD from Claremont Graduate University.