Our Stories Have Never Been Told: Preliminary Thoughts on Black Lesbian Cultural Production as Historiography in The Watermelon Woman

Type de ressource

Article de revue

Auteur/contributeur

Richardson, Matt (Auteur)

Titre

Our Stories Have Never Been Told: Preliminary Thoughts on Black Lesbian Cultural Production as Historiography in The Watermelon Woman

Résumé

Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman earned a place in cinematic history as the first feature-length narrative film written and directed by an out black lesbian about black lesbians. This article examines how the film provides an important opportunity to mark the burgeoning genre of black queer documentary as a historiographical medium. The documentary film is a tool that highlights underexplored issues in black experience and provides a cultural site for imagining new possibilities for black lesbian subjectivity and creating innovative approaches to representing sexuality in black filmmaking.

Publication

Black Camera

Volume

2

Numéro

2

Pages

100-113

Date

2011

Langue

Anglais

ISSN

1947-4237

Titre abrégé

Our Stories Have Never Been Told

URL

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/426848

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24/01/2022 16:03

Catalogue de bibl.

Project MUSE

Extra

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Référence

Richardson, M. (2011). Our Stories Have Never Been Told: Preliminary Thoughts on Black Lesbian Cultural Production as Historiography in The Watermelon Woman. Black Camera, 2(2), 100‑113. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/426848

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