Black Image Making and Whiteness

Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (2023); and co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020).

'This wide-ranging collection gathers probing explorations of whiteness on film. Its rigorous scholarship and theoretical precision illuminate the impact of white presumptions cinematically but also and mainly show the sustained impressive cumulative impact of the questioning of whiteness by filmmakers and film scholars. A volume fully worthy of its many invocations of the genius of James Baldwin.'

• List of figuresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements1. IntroductionThomas Austin 2. ‘Green Like Me’Jane M. Gaines 3. ‘Where’s that gotten us?’: Horace Ové’s Pressure and the Fallacy of White Respectability,Kwame Phillips 4. Black and White in Colour: Looking Across Race in Spike Lee’s Clockers and Summer of Sam Thomas Austin 5. ‘Robbing the stage’: Race, Class and Gender in Alice Diop’s La Mort de DantonThomas Austin6. Tarrying with Whiteness: Humility and the Indecisive Moment in the Work of Rosine Mbakam and Johny PittsFinn Daniels-Yeomans7. Whiteness, Gender and Uncomfortable Identification in Jordan Peele’s Get OutJoy McEntee 8. Estranging Homophilic Perspectives in Contemporary US Cinema: Blindspotting and UsZélie Asava 9. How I May Destroy You Reinvents Rape TelevisionCaetlin Benson-Allott 10. ‘White is Where you are’: Post-imperial Europe and white aesthetics in Atlanta season 3James Harvey11. I’m A Virgo: A Critique of White Cultural and Economic HegemonyAndrew Stubbs-Lacy12. Steve McQueen’s GrenfellThomas Austin