Black boys : the social aesthetics of British urban film /: the social aesthetics of British urban film. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Clive Chijioke Nwonka.
• Authors: Nwonka, Clive
• Contents: AcknowledgementsDedicationIntroduction1. The Symbolic Location and the Extractive Choreographies of the Black Mytheme2. Hegemonic (A)Symmetries of Black British Filmic Identity in the 90s3. Black Cultural Politics and the Management of Racial Difference4. The Hauntological Black Urban Other5. A Storm in Angell Town: Black Youth Delinquency in Storm Damage 6. Constructing Black Urbanity: Mediatations of Black-on-Black criminality7. 'Fuck Society': Tower Block Dreams, Adjacent PSB and Urban subcultural Excessivity8. Kes With Guns: Bullet Boy and the Urban Text's Ontological Suture 9. Hugging a Hoodie: Broken Britain, Conviviality and the Agnotology of the Urban Text10. Defensible Black Spaces: Race, British Identity and Architecture in Attack the Block 11. Of Simulacra, Performativity and Language: Top Boy, Black Cultural Visibility and the Popular12. Conclusion: The (Un)Exceptional Textures of Black Urbanity Bibliography.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 791.4365230941; Black people in motion pictures; Urban youth in motion pictures; Cities and towns in motion pictures; Race in motion pictures; Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History; Black people -- Race identity -- Great Britain; Urban Black people -- Great Britain
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501352836
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.