124 Pages
21 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
124 Pages
21 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
124 Pages
21 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book helps readers understand Moonlight ’s profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins and the film’s adoption and disruption of traditional coming-of-age themes through the specific prism of Chiron’s childhood and youth.
Moonlight (2016) is an intensely moving and poetically rendered coming-of-age story about a young gay... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1 ‘A Film We’ve Been Waiting For’: The Social and Cultural Contexts of Moonlight
Chapter 2 Moonlight and Black Masculinity on Screen
Chapter 3 Moonlight as Queer Cinema
Chapter 4 Watching Moonlight: Narrative, Setting and Symbolism
Chapter 5 Empathy, Universality and Black Boyhood in Moonlight
Epilogue Love and Moonlight
Biography
Maria Flood is Lecturer in World Cinema at Liverpool University. She is the author of France, Algeria and the Moving Image (2017) and has published on Francophone cinemas of the Maghreb, world cinema and political violence and terrorism and ethics in documentary film.
