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100 1 a| Post, Tinae| author.=| ^A1456854;

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.;

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490 0 a| Minoritarian aesthetics;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249) and index.;

520 8 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.00Tina 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. 00Through this varied archive, Post reveals how deadpan aesthetics function in and between opacity and fugitivity, minimalism and saturation, excess and insensibility.;

650 0 a| American literaturex| African American authorsx| History and criticism.=| ^A24860;

650 0 a| African American arts.=| ^A107837;

650 0 a| Facial expression in art.=| ^A304492;

650 0 a| Facial expression in literature.=| ^A1458751;

650 0 a| African Americans in literature.=| ^A49990;

650 0 a| African Americans in art.=| ^A17934;

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650 7 a| African Americans in art.2| fast0| (OCoLC)fst00799722;

650 7 a| African Americans in literature.2| fast0| (OCoLC)fst00799727;

650 7 a| American literaturex| African American authors.2| fast0| (OCoLC)fst00807114;

650 7 a| Facial expression in art.2| fast0| (OCoLC)fst00919592;

650 7 a| Facial expression in literature.2| fast0| (OCoLC)fst00919593;

655 7 a| Criticism, interpretation, etc.2| fast0| (OCoLC)fst01411635;

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Deadpan : the aesthetics of Black inexpression / Tina Post.

Author/creator	Post, Tina author.
Format	Book
Publication	New York : New York University Press, [2022]
Description	269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects	American literature--African American authors. --History and criticism. African American arts. Facial expression in art. Facial expression in literature. African Americans in literature. African Americans in art.

Series	Minoritarian aesthetics
Summary	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.00Tina 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. 00Through this varied archive, Post reveals how deadpan aesthetics function in and between opacity and fugitivity, minimalism and saturation, excess and insensibility.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249) and index.
Genre/form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN	9781479811212 paperback
ISBN	1479811211 paperback
ISBN	9781479811205 hardcover
ISBN	1479811203 hardcover

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