Luces sobre sombrasLas precursoras cinematográficas afroamericanas

  1. Platas Alonso, María
Book:
Investigación y Género. Reflexiones desde la investigación para avanzar en igualdad: VII Congreso Universitario Internacional Investigación y Género : Sevilla, 28 y 29 de Junio de 2018
  1. Isabel Vázquez Bermúdez (coord.)
  2. María Jesús Cala Carrillo (coord.)
  3. Ana Guil Bozal (coord.)
  4. Carmen García Gil (coord.)
  5. Rocío Martínez Torres (coord.)
  6. Consuelo Flecha García (coord.)

Publisher: SIEMUS (Seminario Interdisciplinar de Estudios de las Mujeres) ; Universidad de Sevilla

ISBN: 978-84-948975-3-5

Year of publication: 2018

Pages: 633-643

Type: Book chapter

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Abstract

As directors, scriptwriters, producers and distributors, African American women played a decisive role in the origin of the motion pictures industry in the United States. For almost a century, the white patriarchal values that still dominate the business have sent these pioneers and their works to a severe obscurantism. The research initiated by African American women historians, filmmakers and critics by the end of the 20th century brought to the forefront these pioneers and their works. This paper offers a brief introduction to these cinematic foremothers as fundamental figures in the cinema of the United States offering varied representations of race, gender and class.

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