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Here is a book review published in Film Criticism of an amazing film theory textbook I assign in my film courses. I am happy to provide a syllabus of how I use this textbook if you send me a message. I use it in a specifically designed film analysis course that is anti-racist and focused on socio-political issues in the context of film and media studies. To this end, I partner it with Stam and Shohat's _Unthinking Eurocentrism_ in what has been a very successful course for nearly a decade.
On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value
2013
In this landmark work of critical theory, black studies, and visual culture studies, Alessandra Raengo boldly reads race as a theory of the image. By placing emphasis on the surface of the visual as the repository of its meaning, race presents the most enduring ontological approach to what images are, how they feel, and what they mean. Having established her theoretical concerns, the author's eclectic readings of various artifacts of visual culture, fine arts, cinema, and rhetorical tropes provoke and destabilize readers' visual comfort zone, forcing them to recognize the unstated racial aspects of viewing and the foundational role of race in informing the visual.
Traditionally, all global citizens regardless of their identity consciously and intuitively use their lens figuratively, metaphorically, philosophically, and symbolically to enunciate their testimony within Shades of a Global Culturalspace. William Anderson Gittens ISBN 978-976-96220-7-4 Author, Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Cultural Practitioner, Publisher