Black Image Making and Whiteness
Published on 31. May 2026
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-3995-4506-8 (ISBN)
Description
How have image-makers of colour explored white societies, cultures and practices? This book takes as its case studies films, TV shows and photography that treat whiteness, in all its complexities, not as an unmarked and naturalised position from which to speak, but as an object of inquiry and sustained scrutiny. International in both authorship and critical scope, Black Image Making and Whiteness disrupts Eurocentric perspectives to ask: what happens when white people are seen as the Other?
Reviews / Votes
'This wide-ranging collection gathers probing explorations of whiteness on film. Its rigorous scholarship and theoretical precision illuminate the impact of white presumptions cinematically but also and mainly show the sustained impressive cumulative impact of the questioning of whiteness by filmmakers and film scholars. A volume fully worthy of its many invocations of the genius of James Baldwin.' * David Roediger teaches American Studies at University of Kansas and is the author of the autobiography An Ordinary White. *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
16 b&w images
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-4506-8 (9781399545068)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (2023); and co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020).
Content
List of figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Thomas Austin
2. 'Green Like Me'
Jane M. Gaines
3. 'Where's that gotten us?': Horace Ove's Pressure and the Fallacy of White Respectability,
Kwame Phillips
4. Black and White in Colour: Looking Across Race in Spike Lee's Clockers and Summer of Sam
Thomas Austin
5. 'Robbing the stage': Race, Class and Gender in Alice Diop's La Mort de Danton
Thomas Austin
6. Tarrying with Whiteness: Humility and the Indecisive Moment in the Work of Rosine Mbakam and Johny Pitts
Finn Daniels-Yeomans
7. Whiteness, Gender and Uncomfortable Identification in Jordan Peele's Get Out
Joy McEntee
8. Estranging Homophilic Perspectives in Contemporary US Cinema: Blindspotting and Us
Zelie Asava
9. How I May Destroy You Reinvents Rape Television
Caetlin Benson-Allott
10. 'White is Where you are': Post-imperial Europe and white aesthetics in Atlanta season 3
James Harvey
11. I'm A Virgo: A Critique of White Cultural and Economic Hegemony
Andrew Stubbs-Lacy
12. Steve McQueen's Grenfell
Thomas Austin
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Thomas Austin
2. 'Green Like Me'
Jane M. Gaines
3. 'Where's that gotten us?': Horace Ove's Pressure and the Fallacy of White Respectability,
Kwame Phillips
4. Black and White in Colour: Looking Across Race in Spike Lee's Clockers and Summer of Sam
Thomas Austin
5. 'Robbing the stage': Race, Class and Gender in Alice Diop's La Mort de Danton
Thomas Austin
6. Tarrying with Whiteness: Humility and the Indecisive Moment in the Work of Rosine Mbakam and Johny Pitts
Finn Daniels-Yeomans
7. Whiteness, Gender and Uncomfortable Identification in Jordan Peele's Get Out
Joy McEntee
8. Estranging Homophilic Perspectives in Contemporary US Cinema: Blindspotting and Us
Zelie Asava
9. How I May Destroy You Reinvents Rape Television
Caetlin Benson-Allott
10. 'White is Where you are': Post-imperial Europe and white aesthetics in Atlanta season 3
James Harvey
11. I'm A Virgo: A Critique of White Cultural and Economic Hegemony
Andrew Stubbs-Lacy
12. Steve McQueen's Grenfell
Thomas Austin