| Authors and Corporations: | , |
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| published: | Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. ©2018. |
| Part of: |
A Camera Obscura Book Series
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| Media Type: | Book, E-Book |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
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| ISBN: |
9780822371854
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Part of: |
A Camera Obscura Book Series
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| Print version:: | Welbon, Yvonne, Sisters in the Life, Durham : Duke University Press,c2018 |
| Collection: | E-Books adlr |
Assembling a range of interviews, essays, and conversations, Sisters in the Life narrates the history of African American lesbian media-making during the past thirty years, thereby documenting the important and influential work of this group of understudied and underappreciated artists. |
| Cover Contents Preface: To Be Transparent: Seeing Directions and Connections in Black Lesbian Film Introduction: The Sisters in the Life Archive Project Part I: 1986-1995 Introduction 1. Birth of a Notion: Toward Black, Gay, and Lesbian Imagery in Film and Video 2. Narrating Our History: An Introduction 3. Narrating Our History: Selections from a Dialogue among Queer Media Artists from the African Diaspora 4. Construction of Computation and Desire: Introduction to Yvonne Welbon's Interview with Pamela L. Jennings 5. Ruins and Desire: Interview with Pamela L. Jennings, July 27, 2012 6. the book of ruins and desire: Interactive Mechatronic Sculpture 7. A Cosmic Demonstration of Shari Frilot's Curatorial Practice 8. Identity and Performance in Yvonne Welbon's Remembering Wei-Yi Fang, Remembering Myself: An Autobiography Part II: 1996-2016 Introduction 9. Producing Black Lesbian Media 10. Stereotypy, Mammy, and Recovery in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman 11. Coquie Hughes: Urban Lesbian Filmmaker. Introduction to Yvonne Welbon's Interview with Coquie Hughes 12. Stepping Out on Faith: Interview with Coquie Hughes, July 27, 2012 13. "Invite Me In!": Angela Robinson at Hollywood's Threshold 14. Shine Louise Houston: An Interstice of Her Own Making 15. From Rage to Resignation: Reading Tina Mabry's Mississippi Damned as a Post-Civil Rights Response to Nina Simone's "Mississippi Goddam" 16. The Circuitous Route of Presenting Black Butch: The Travels of Dee Rees's Pariah 17. Creating the World Anew: Black Lesbian Legacies and Queer Film Futures Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y. |