Under a Bad Sign: Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture - Softcover

Munby, Jonathan

 
9780226550367: Under a Bad Sign: Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture
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ISBN 10: 0226550362 ISBN 13: 9780226550367
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2011

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What accounts for the persistence of the figure of the black criminal in popular culture created by African Americans? Unearthing the overlooked history of art that has often seemed at odds with the politics of civil rights and racial advancement, Under a Bad Sign explores the rationale behind this tradition of criminal self-representation from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary gangsta culture.

In this lively exploration, Jonathan Munby takes a uniquely broad view, laying bare the way the criminal appears within and moves among literary, musical, and visual arts. Munby traces the legacy of badness in Rudolph Fisher and Chester Himes’s detective fiction and in Claude McKay, Julian Mayfield, and Donald Goines’s urban experience writing. Ranging from Peetie Wheatstraw’s gangster blues to gangsta rap, he also examines criminals in popular songs. Turning to the screen, the underworld films of Oscar Micheaux and Ralph Cooper, the 1970s blaxploitation cycle, and the 1990s hood movie come under his microscope as well. Ultimately, Munby concludes that this tradition has been a misunderstood aspect of African American civic life and that, rather than undermining black culture, it forms a rich and enduring response to being outcast in America.

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Jonathan Munby is a senior lecturer in film studies and American studies at Lancaster University. He is the author of Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from "Little Caesar" to "Touch of Evil", also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226550362
ISBN 13 
9780226550367
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226
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