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Re-mixing Old Character Tropes on Screen : = Kerry Washington, Viola Davis, and the New Femininity.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Re-mixing Old Character Tropes on Screen :/
Reminder of title:	Kerry Washington, Viola Davis, and the New Femininity.
Author:	Dabney, Melina Kristine.
Description:	1 online resource (82 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-05.
Subject:	Film studies. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369864984

Re-mixing Old Character Tropes on Screen : = Kerry Washington, Viola Davis, and the New Femininity.
Dabney, Melina Kristine.

Re-mixing Old Character Tropes on Screen :Kerry Washington, Viola Davis, and the New Femininity. - 1 online resource (82 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-05.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

While there is a substantial amount of scholarship on the depiction of African American women in film and television, this thesis exposes the new formations of African American femininity on screen. African American women have consistently resisted, challenged, submitted to, and remixed racial myths and sexual stereotypes existing in American cinema and television programming. Mainstream film and television practices significantly contribute to the reinforcement of old stereotypes in contemporary black women characters. However, based on the efforts of African American producers like Shonda Rhimes, who has attempted to insert more realistic renderings of African American women in her recent television shows, black women's representation is undergoing yet another shift in contemporary media. Moreover, the career choices of African American actresses are an indication of a push for positive representation. Through identifying historical tropes of African American femininity, and through utilizing the insights of black feminist thought, this thesis will explicate the portrayals of black womanhood in contemporary film and television. The recent film and television roles Kerry Washington and Viola Davis, two prominent African American figures in film and television today, will be case studies for this analysis. The films and television shows of Kerry Washington and Viola Davis contain moments of resurgence and moments that refute stereotypes of black femininity. Black actresses must constantly negotiate their stake in the representation of African American women and the problematic standards of mainstream studios.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369864984Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179264
Film studies.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Re-mixing Old Character Tropes on Screen : = Kerry Washington, Viola Davis, and the New Femininity.
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