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).

• 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-Lacey12. Steve McQueen’s GrenfellThomas Austin