x, 226 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Why Steve McQueen matters / Thomas Austin -- From Exodus to Small Axe: Steve McQueen's filmic world of two halves / Elisabetta Fabrizi -- Interrogating surplus liveness: Girls, Tricky / James Harvey -- Eye witness: memorialising humanity in Steve McQueen's Hunger / Eugene McNamee -- Shame and the City: Subverting neoliberal, New York singleton culture in Shame / Niall Richardson -- If it is to be done, how: considering a Robeson biopic / Shana Redmond -- The Slave narrative and filmic aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup, and colonial violence / Philip Kaisary -- Working for / working with / working against: Widows and the politics and poetics of genre / Matthias Grotkopp -- Is Small Axe cinema or television and does it matter? Discourses of authorship and production in the publicity for Small Axe / Christine Geraghty -- Small Axe and / as cinematic television / Hannah Andrews -- Love in a cold climate: Lovers Rock / Thomas Austin -- Dub, ecstasy and collective memory in Lovers Rock / Kwame Philips -- The Burden of expectation: where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films? / Patricia Francis -- Boy with Flag and Black British experience in Handsworth Songs and Red, White and Blue / Thomas Austin -- Small Axe is a start: an interview with Bernard Coard
Subject Terms:
McQueen, Steve, 1969- -- Criticism and interpretation. | Motion picture producers and directors -- Great Britain. | McQueen, Steve, 1969- | Motion picture producers and directors. | Great Britain.