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The skin I fight in : race, sexuality and the politiced construction of the contemporary black action heroine
Dissertation (MA (Drama and Film Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/33374 The skin I fight in : race, sexuality and the politiced construction of the contemporary black action heroine Broodryk, Chris Willem mosekigoitumetswe@yahoo.com Moseki, Goitumetswe Selina Action cinema Blackness Gender Race Construction UCTD Dissertation (MA (Drama and Film Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2013. This study interrogates the construction of the black female action hero in contemporary American mainstream action cinema, with specific reference to the films Catwoman and Colombiana, as well as the X-Men trilogy. In order to explore issues around black female construction in action cinema, the study presents a critical overview of related frameworks of construction. By problematising black male construction in action cinema as well as challenging white female construction in action cinema, this study shows how black female construction in action cinema emerges as doubly problematic or compromised due to race and gender. Mainstream American action cinema often stereotypes black female characters because of their race and gender. Even after (or due to) the Blaxploitation era, such constructional issues persisted. In light of the above, this study draws from relevant existing published scholarship in race and gender to respond the research aim articulated earlier. As such, there is no single conceptual or theoretical framework that dominates this study, but rather an interwoven conceptual and theoretical progression which includes (but is not limited to) hooks, Fanon, De Beauvoir and many others. In addition to key discussions on race and gender, this study further problematises the construction of the black female action hero by investigating how sexuality often and in problematic ways informs character construction. Based on this conceptual and theoretical framework, the study provides an interrogation of the black female action hero in the selected films referred to above. In a detailed critical analysis, this study show how stereotypes of race and gender (such as the Jezebel), exaggerations of black female sexuality, castration anxiety, the male gaze, binary oppositions and exotification altogether contribute to how these films consistently objectify and disempower the black female action hero. gm2014 Drama MA (Drama and Film Studies) unrestricted 2014-02-11T05:15:22Z 2014-02-11T05:15:22Z 2013-09-05 2013 Dissertation Moseki, GS 2013, The skin I fight in : race, sexuality and the politiced construction of the contemporary black action heroine, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/33374> E13/9/1069/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/33374 en © 2013 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Action cinema Blackness Gender Race Construction UCTD The skin I fight in : race, sexuality and the politiced construction of the contemporary black action heroine |
| title | The skin I fight in : race, sexuality and the politiced construction of the contemporary black action heroine |
| title_full | The skin I fight in : race, sexuality and the politiced construction of the contemporary black action heroine |
| title_fullStr | The skin I fight in : race, sexuality and the politiced construction of the contemporary black action heroine |
| title_full_unstemmed | The skin I fight in : race, sexuality and the politiced construction of the contemporary black action heroine |
| title_short | The skin I fight in : race, sexuality and the politiced construction of the contemporary black action heroine |
| title_sort | skin i fight in race sexuality and the politiced construction of the contemporary black action heroine |
| topic | Action cinema Blackness Gender Race Construction UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/33374 |