Lexington Books
Pages: 256
Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-66690-421-5 • Hardback • January 2022 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-66690-423-9 • Paperback • March 2024 • $39.99 • (£30.00)
978-1-66690-422-2 • eBook • January 2022 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
Shayne Lee is associate professor of sociology at the University of Houston.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Theodical Secularity
Chapter 2. Tactical Deists: Black Liberation Theology and Cinema
Chapter 3. Cinema and American Slavery
Chapter 4. Ousmane Sembène: Toward a New and Modern Africa
Chapter 5. Contemporary African-American Films
Epilogue. Africa: The New Cinematic Holocaust
Filmography
References
About the Author
Packed with astute readings -- of films, of the Black experience, and of scholarship on modern religion -- this book challenges us to see the way cinema has been a creative arena of reflection on how a 'sidelined' divine sovereign can be both present and absent in Black suffering. This is a critical contribution to how we think about the presence of spiritual realities in everyday life.
— Nancy T. Ammerman, Professor Emerita, Boston University