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Introduction: Why Steve McQueen Matters
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Thomas Austin
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Notes on Contributors ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Introduction: Why Steve McQueen Matters 1
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Part 1
- 1 From Exodus to Small Axe: Steve McQueen’s Filmic World of Two Halves 17
- 2 Surplus Liveness and Black Male Performance in Girls, Tricky 30
- 3 Eye Witness: Memorialising Humanity in Steve McQueen’s Hunger 41
- 4 Shame and the City: Subverting Neoliberal, New York Singleton Culture in Shame 59
- 5 If it is to be done, how?: Considering a Robeson Biopic 73
- 6 The Slave Narrative and Filmic Aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup and Colonial Violence 78
- 7 Working for/working with/working against – Widows and the Politics and Poetics of Genre 96
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Part 2
- 8 Is Small Axe Cinema or Television and does it Matter? Discourses of Authorship and Production in the Publicity for Small Axe 113
- 9 Small Axe and/as Cinematic Television 128
- 10 Love in a Cold Climate: Lovers Rock 144
- 11 A Different Kind of Dread: Dub, Ecstasy and Collective Memory in Lovers Rock 158
- 12 The Burden of Expectation: Where are the Women in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe Films? 172
- 13 Boy with Flag and Black British Experience in Handsworth Songs and Red, White and Blue 185
- 14 Small Axe is a Start: An interview with Bernard Coard 194
- Films and Television Programmes 199
- Bibliography 201
- Index 220
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Notes on Contributors ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Introduction: Why Steve McQueen Matters 1
-
Part 1
- 1 From Exodus to Small Axe: Steve McQueen’s Filmic World of Two Halves 17
- 2 Surplus Liveness and Black Male Performance in Girls, Tricky 30
- 3 Eye Witness: Memorialising Humanity in Steve McQueen’s Hunger 41
- 4 Shame and the City: Subverting Neoliberal, New York Singleton Culture in Shame 59
- 5 If it is to be done, how?: Considering a Robeson Biopic 73
- 6 The Slave Narrative and Filmic Aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup and Colonial Violence 78
- 7 Working for/working with/working against – Widows and the Politics and Poetics of Genre 96
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Part 2
- 8 Is Small Axe Cinema or Television and does it Matter? Discourses of Authorship and Production in the Publicity for Small Axe 113
- 9 Small Axe and/as Cinematic Television 128
- 10 Love in a Cold Climate: Lovers Rock 144
- 11 A Different Kind of Dread: Dub, Ecstasy and Collective Memory in Lovers Rock 158
- 12 The Burden of Expectation: Where are the Women in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe Films? 172
- 13 Boy with Flag and Black British Experience in Handsworth Songs and Red, White and Blue 185
- 14 Small Axe is a Start: An interview with Bernard Coard 194
- Films and Television Programmes 199
- Bibliography 201
- Index 220