UID:
almahu_9949870126802882
Format:
1 online resource (176 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781501352850
Content:
"Black Boys: The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film produces the first dedicated analysis, drawing on film studies, sociological and media studies perspectives, and through historicization and contextualisation, that seeks to understand the emergence and allure of the black urban film genre for filmmakers, broadcasters and audiences in the contemporary British mediascape. It locates the genre at the intersection of complex filmic, socio-political and media relations and modes of production that are themselves intertwined with political, legislative and cultural agendas tied to post-multiculturalist and neoliberalist tendencies within film industry and public service broadcasting frameworks. Further, the book relates the contextual with the textual through a range of case studies of key films from the urban genre such as Attack the Block and Bullet Boy through a reliance on film and cultural studies approaches. Particularly, the book provides a strong textual analysis of the films in question, moving beyond the often sociologically-dominated frameworks for such interpretations and approaches the case studies of films through alternative analytical optics including architecture and space, allegory, crime discourses and popular music. Black Boys poses empirical questions not only of what constitutes British Urban Cinema, but whether inherited understandings of the genre, however defined, can present an authentic analysis of the social, cultural and political realities of Britain's urban youth within film culture."--
Note:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: On A Reals: The Aesthetics of British Urban Cinema -- 1: British Urban Cinema in Context: Origins, Policy, Representation and Realism -- 2: Getting Something Black Made: Diversity, Bullet Boy and BBC Films -- 3: Understanding the Adulthood/Kidulthood/Brotherhood Trilogy -- 4: Defensible Spaces: Race, Allegory and Architecture in Attack the Block -- 5: The Allure of Criminality in Top Boy -- 6: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781501352829
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.5040/9781501352850
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501352850?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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