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Articles 1 - 18 of 18
Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
Cinema, Black Suffering, And Theodicy: Modern God, Terry Lindvall
Cinema, Black Suffering, And Theodicy: Modern God, Terry Lindvall
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Shayne Lee, Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy: Modern God (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022).
Exhibiting Forgiveness, John C. Lyden
Exhibiting Forgiveness, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024), directed by Titus Kaphar.
Peele’S Black, Extraterrestrial, Naturalistic Critique Of Religion, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Peele’S Black, Extraterrestrial, Naturalistic Critique Of Religion, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Journal of Religion & Film
While Jordan Peele’s films have always held their mysteries close to the chest, they eventually granted their viewers some climactic clarity. Get Out (2017) used an 1980s style orientation video to clear up its neuroscientific twist, while Us (2019) had Lupita Nyongo’s underworld twin narratively spell out the details of the plot. Yet Nope (2022) refuses to show its hand even after the game is over, never illuminating the connection between its opening scene and the broader film, nor a myriad of other questions. As such, critics complained that it stitched together two seemingly incongruent plots without explanation; one where …
Gender, Race, And Religion In An African Enlightenment, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Gender, Race, And Religion In An African Enlightenment, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Journal of Religion & Film
Black Panther (2018) not only heralded a new future for representation in big-budget films but also gave an alternative vision of the past, one which recasts the Enlightenment within an African context. By going through its technological enlightenment in isolation from Western ideals and dominance, Wakanda opens a space for reflecting on alternate ways progress can—and still might—unfold. More specifically, this alternative history creates room for reimagining how modernity—with its myriad social, scientific, and religious paradigm shifts—could have negotiated questions of race, and, in turn, how race could have informed and redirected some of the lesser impulses of modernity. Similar …
Alice, Sheila J. Nayar
Alice, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Alice (2022), directed by Krystin Ver Linden.
Descendant, Sheila J. Nayar
Descendant, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Descendant (2022), directed by Margaret Brown.
Blindspotting And Covid: The Gentrification Of Racism, Ashley Starr-Morris
Blindspotting And Covid: The Gentrification Of Racism, Ashley Starr-Morris
Journal of Religion & Film
The novel Coronavirus is not only exposing old patterns of racism and systemic inequalities, but deepening them as well. The notion of blindspotting, as described in the film by the same name, is used to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the “spiritual emergency” or crisis of racism in America. "Blindspotting" is an image or situation that can be interpreted in two ways but is understood by some in only one way, thereby producing a blind spot. In 2020 and 2021, we see segments of American society, from politics to white Christian nationalism, upholding a sacred canopy of exceptionalism by …
Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics: African Spirituality In American Cinema, Jessica Knippel
Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics: African Spirituality In American Cinema, Jessica Knippel
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Kameelah L. Martin, Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics: African Spirituality in American Cinema.
Burden, John C. Lyden
Burden, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Burden (2020) directed by Andrew Heckler.
Run Sweetheart Run, Jodi Mcdavid
Run Sweetheart Run, Jodi Mcdavid
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Run Sweetheart Run (2020) directed by Shana Feste.
Blackkklansman, William L. Blizek
Blackkklansman, William L. Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of BlacKkKlansman (2018), directed by Spike Lee.
“Hi Auntie”: A Paradox Of Hip Hop Socio-Political Resistance In Killmonger, Daniel White Hodge
“Hi Auntie”: A Paradox Of Hip Hop Socio-Political Resistance In Killmonger, Daniel White Hodge
Journal of Religion & Film
This is one of a series of film reviews of Black Panther (2018), directed by Ryan Coogler.
Racism And Capitalism In Black Panther, Kyle Derkson
Racism And Capitalism In Black Panther, Kyle Derkson
Journal of Religion & Film
This is one of a series of film reviews of Black Panther (2018), directed by Ryan Coogler.
The Ancestral Lands Of Black Panther And Killmonger Unburied, A. David Lewis
The Ancestral Lands Of Black Panther And Killmonger Unburied, A. David Lewis
Journal of Religion & Film
This is one of a series of film reviews of Black Panther (2018), directed by Ryan Coogler.
Lazercism, Rubina Ramji
Lazercism, Rubina Ramji
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of LaZercism (2018), dir. Shaka King.
Monsters And Men, William L. Blizek
Monsters And Men, William L. Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Monsters and Men (2018), directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green.
Man On Fire, William L. Blizek
Man On Fire, William L. Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Man on Fire (2018) directed by Joel Fendelman.
"I Do Feel The Fire!": The Transformations Of Prison-Based Black Male Converts To Islam In South Central, Malcolm X, And Oz, Kameron J. Copeland
"I Do Feel The Fire!": The Transformations Of Prison-Based Black Male Converts To Islam In South Central, Malcolm X, And Oz, Kameron J. Copeland
Journal of Religion & Film
Historically, imprisoned Black male converts to Islam have been known for their narratives of redemption and struggles for religious freedom behind bars. While Islam possesses a strong visible presence throughout predominately Black areas of inner cities, it has become a natural feature of Black popular culture in mediums such as hip-hop, film, and literature. By the 1990s, the portrayal of Islamic conversions yielding Malcolm X-style transformations among young Black men, who formerly embodied self-destructiveness, were visible in films featuring Black male protagonists. The prison-based transformations typically involved highly influential Black Muslim leaders improving the social conditions of the inmate, the …