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03413aam a2200469 i 4500 001 A941BEF2FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240417010124 008 220414t20222022nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1479811203 020 $a 9781479811205 020 $a 1479811211 020 $a 9781479811212 035 $a (OCoLC)1310766704 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d TOH $d CDX $d YDX $d ERASA $d GZN $d UVV $d MUU $d FUG $d OCLCO $d ZQP $d SILO 050 4 $a NX180.P79 $b P67 2022 082 04 $a 810.9896073 $2 23 100 1 $a Post, Tina, $e author. 245 10 $a Deadpan : $b the aesthetics of Black inexpression / $c Tina Post. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 269 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Minoritarian aesthetics 520 $a "Arguing that inexpression is a gesture that acquires distinctive meanings in concert with blackness, Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan--a vaudeville term meaning 'dead face---across literature, theater, visual and performance art, and the performance of self in everyday life. Tina Post reveals that the performance of purposeful withholding is a critical tool in the work of black culture makers, intervening in the persistent framing of African American aesthetics as colorful, loud, humorous, and excessive. Beginning with the expressionless faces of mid-twentieth-century documentary photography and proceeding to early twenty-first-century drama, this project examines performances of blackness's deadpan aesthetic within and beyond black embodiments, including Young Jean Lee's The Shipment and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors, as well as Buster Keaton's signature character and Steve McQueen's restitution of the former's legacy within the continuum of Black cultural production. Through this varied archive, Post reveals how deadpan aesthetics function in and between opacity and fugitivity, minimalism and saturation, excess and insensibility."--Page 4 of cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-249) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : Some type of way -- Subjectivity and self-specimenization -- Minimalism and the aesthetics of Black threat -- The opacity gradient -- Excess and absence (or, the Negro believes____) -- Buster Keaton's black deadpan -- Coda : Steve McQueen takes it back. 650 0 $a Facial expression in art. 650 0 $a Facial expression in literature. 650 0 $a African Americans in literature. 650 0 $a African Americans in art. 650 0 $a Face $x Psychological aspects. 650 7 $a African American arts $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799021 650 7 $a African Americans in art $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799722 650 7 $a African Americans in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799727 650 7 $a American literature $x African American authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807114 650 7 $a Facial expression in art $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00919592 650 7 $a Facial expression in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00919593 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Print version: $a Post, Tina. $t Deadpan. $d New York : New York University Press, [2022] $z 9781479811229 $w (OCoLC)1351197634 830 0 $a Minoritarian aesthetics 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240417025621.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A941BEF2FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search