The Black Ecstatic

Critically lauded as one of 2020’s best films, Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is an intimate look at black joy during a fraught period of high unemployment and the state-sanctioned criminalization of racialized communities in early 1980s Britain. My video essay ‘The Black Ecstatic’ concentrates on a se...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Screenworks
Main Author: Desirée de Jesús
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UWE 2025-01-01
Subjects:
steve mcqueen
black ecstatic
1980s
music
diaspora
embodiment
Online Access:https://www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-15-1/the-black-ecstatic
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Summary:Critically lauded as one of 2020’s best films, Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is an intimate look at black joy during a fraught period of high unemployment and the state-sanctioned criminalization of racialized communities in early 1980s Britain. My video essay ‘The Black Ecstatic’ concentrates on a sequence in this musical and explores how attending to sound enables us to think across generations of Black diasporic dreaming, striving, believing, and resisting bodies.
ISSN:2514-3123

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