Deadpan : The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression / Tina Post.
2023
BF592.F33 P68 2023
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Title
Deadpan : The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression / Tina Post.
Author
Post, Tina, author.
ISBN
9781479811229
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource : 63 color illustrations
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10.18574/nyu/9781479811229.001.0001 doi
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BF592.F33 P68 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9896073
Summary
Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural productionArguing that inexpression as a gesture that acquires distinctive meanings in concert with blackness, Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan-a vaudeville term meaning "dead face"-across literature, theater, visual and performance art, and the performance of self in everyday life.Tina Post reveals that the performance of purposeful withholding is a critical tool in the work of black culture makers, intervening in the persistent framing of African American aesthetics as colorful, loud, humorous, and excessive. Beginning with the expressionless faces of mid-twentieth-century documentary photography and proceeding to early twenty-first-century drama, this project examines performances of blackness's deadpan aesthetic within and beyond black embodiments, including Young Jean Lee's The Shipment and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors, as well as Buster Keaton's signature character and Steve McQueen's restitution of the former's legacy within the continuum of Black cultural production. Through this varied archive, Post reveals how deadpan aesthetics function in and between opacity and fugitivity, minimalism and saturation, excess and insensibility.
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Minoritarian Aesthetics ; 1
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Introduction: Some Type of Way
1 Subjectivity and Self-Specimenization
2 Minimalism and the Aesthetics of Black Threat
3 The Opacity Gradient
4 Excess and Absence (or, The Negro Believes ______)
5 Buster Keaton's Black Deadpan
Coda: Steve McQueen Takes It Back
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
CONTENTS
Introduction: Some Type of Way
1 Subjectivity and Self-Specimenization
2 Minimalism and the Aesthetics of Black Threat
3 The Opacity Gradient
4 Excess and Absence (or, The Negro Believes ______)
5 Buster Keaton's Black Deadpan
Coda: Steve McQueen Takes It Back
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author