Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004484320
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9789042010383
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 73
Content:
This book looks at a sector of black and Asian British film and television as it presented itself in the 1990s and early 2000s. For this period, a 'mainstreaming' of black and Asian British film has been observed in criticism and theory and articulated by an increasing number of practitioners themselves, referring to changing modes of production, distribution and reception and implying a more popular and commercial orientation of certain media products. This idea is a leitmotif for the authors' readings of recent films and examples of television drama, including such diverse products as Young Soul Rebels and Babymother, East Is East and Bend It Like Beckham, The Buddha of Suburbia and White Teeth . These analyses are supplemented with a look at earlier landmark productions (like Pressure ) as well as relevant social, institutional and aesthetic frameworks. The book closes with a selection of statements by black and Asian media practitioners who operate from within Britain's cultural industries: Mike Phillips, Horace Ové, Julian Henriques, Parminder Vir and Gurinder Chadha
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction -- CLAIMING STRUCTURES, BIDDING FOR THE MAINSTREAM -- Chapter 1 -- Black and Asian Britain and the Cultural Mainstream -- Chapter 2 -- Be Ourselves and Be Mainstream? 'Black' British Film Revisited -- Chapter 3 -- 'Landmarks': The Evolution of Black and Asian Narrative Film in Britain from the 1960s to the 1980s -- CASE STUDIES -- Chapter 4 -- Black Youth Films in the 1990s -- Chapter 5 -- Asian British Film since the 1990s -- Chapter 6 -- 1990s Television Drama: Mainscreening Black and Asian British History -- Conclusion -- VOICES -- Mike PHILLIPS: Art, the Myth of Black Culture and the Struggle for British Identity -- Horace OVÉ: Belmont Olympic -- Julian HENRIQUES: Reggae Sound Systems, the Body and Film-Making Practices -- Parminder Vir in Interview -- Gurinder Chadha in Interview -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bidding for the Mainstream? : Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s Leiden : BRILL, 2004 ISBN 9789042010383
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004484320
Author information:
Korte, Barbara 1957-
Author information:
Sternberg, Claudia Schrag
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