https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/206 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Wide Angle. daily 1 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 18 (1996) - Vol. 21 (1999) Latest Articles: Wide Angle TWO Project MUSE® Wide Angle 1086-3354 0160-6840 Latest articles in Wide Angle. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/170728 <p></p> Jane Gaines, Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2001), 7. I&#39;d like to thank Paula Massood for her invaluable comments on this work. A version of this paper was delivered at the American Studies Association conference in Hartford, 2003. Gaines Jane Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era Chicago University of Chicago 2001 7 I&#39;d like to thank Paula Massood for her invaluable comments on this work. A version of this paper was delivered at the American Studies Association conference in Hartford, 2003.Gaines, 169.Gaines, 177. Henry Louis Gates, The Signifying ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/170732">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/206/image/coversmall 'Other and Different Scenes': Oscar Micheaux's Bodies and the Cinematic Cut 2004-07-09 text/html en-US 'Other and Different Scenes': Oscar Micheaux's Bodies and the Cinematic Cut 2004-07-09 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 18984 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-07-09 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/170729 <p></p> D&#39;Angelo performing in Untitled, music video directed by Paul Hunter. Video frame enlargement. In 1991, Wide Angle published the very successful volume entitled &#x22;Black Cinema.&#x22;1 Though it was not the first such publication dealing specifically with black film, the essays collected in that edition set a standard of scholarship on black film. This scholarship served to situate black film as a dialogic, intertextual medium, rich in its aesthetic, historical and political legacies. The current issue of Wide Angle exploring visual culture and black masculinity emerges from these legacies. Let me elaborate. Contemporary black film and scholarship on black film has broadened the horizon of what is ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/170732">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/206/image/coversmall Visual Culture and the Black Masculine 2004-07-09 text/html en-US Visual Culture and the Black Masculine 2004-07-09 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 9662 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-07-09 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/170730 <p></p> D&#39;Angelo performing in Untitled, music video directed by Paul Hunter. Video frame enlargement. The &#x22;Untitled&#x22; of this essay signifies not only on the title of D&#39;Angelo&#39;s popular song, but also on the un-titling of masculinity that D&#39;Angelo signifies through his discursive play with masculinity and blackness and through the visualization of the black male body. As such, this essay is approaching three things: one is a look at the text and the black male body and another is a look at the spectatorial practices that this text engenders. Finally, in consideration of the text and spectatorial practices, I approach the question of gender ethics or ethical gender constructs as they are provoked by the visual ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/170732">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/206/image/coversmall "Untitled": D'Angelo and the Visualization of the Black Male Body 2004-07-09 text/html en-US "Untitled": D'Angelo and the Visualization of the Black Male Body 2004-07-09 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 87345 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-07-09 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/170731 <p></p> Robert Mayer, ed., Los Angeles: A Chronological and Documentary History, 1542&#x2013;1976 (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, Inc., 1978), 136. Mayer Robert ed. Los Angeles: A Chronological and Documentary History, 1542&#x2013;1976Dobbs Ferry, NYOceana Publications, Inc.1978136 Mark A. Reid, Redefining Black Film (Berkeley: Univ. of CA Press, 1993), 74. Reid Mark A. Redefining Black Film Berkeley Univ. of CA Press 1993 74 Thomas Cripps, &#x201C;Sweet Sweetback&#39;s Baadassss Song and the Changing Politics of Genre Film,&#x201D; in Close Viewings: An Anthology of New Film ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/170732">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/206/image/coversmall An Aesthetic Appropriate to Conditions: Killer of Sheep, (Neo)Realism, and the Documentary Impulse 2004-07-09 text/html en-US An Aesthetic Appropriate to Conditions: Killer of Sheep, (Neo)Realism, and the Documentary Impulse 2004-07-09 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 19633 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-07-09 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/170732 <p></p> Slaves subjected to evaluation by slave buyers in Mandingo. Video frame enlargement. Not quite blaxploitation and not quite plantation-genre film, Dino De Laurentis&#39; Mandingo (1975) portrays the private sex act between masters and slaves as an intense paradoxical site of sexual pleasure and racial domination. Against a Hollywood history of representing rape and sexual assault of innocent white women by menacing black men such as in D.W. Griffith&#39;s Birth of A Nation (1915), Mandingo posits sex acts as the primary constitutive technology of racial domination in U.S. slavery while raising the possibility of mutuality, recognition, and affection between masters and slaves. The film&#39;s polemic proposal ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/170732">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/206/image/coversmall Master-Slave Sex Acts: Mandingo and the Race/Sex Paradox 2004-07-09 text/html en-US Master-Slave Sex Acts: Mandingo and the Race/Sex Paradox 2004-07-09 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 58670 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-07-09