Christina N Baker Female Filmmakers Book sku-194201456

Christina N Baker's Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance, sku-194201456, is listed as Female Performing Arts Books. It examines representations of Black femaleness in feature films by Black women filmmakers and is described as the first book-length analysis of its subject.

Baker discusses how filmmakers draw on personal experience to challenge dominant ideas about Black womanhood. The book covers exploitation in entertainment, mass incarceration, political activism, violence, love, motherhood and sexual identity. Baker argues that these representations can change prevailing narratives.

Her “womanist artistic standpoint” theory draws on Alice Walker, Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, Audre Lorde and Kimberlé Crenshaw. She analyzes films by Ava DuVernay, Tanya Hamilton, Kasi Lemmons, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Dee Rees, includes interviews with three filmmakers, and uses an intersectional perspective on film as artistic expression and social resistance.