Black Boys: The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film

Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Black British Filmic Identity, the Symbolic Location and the Extractive Choreographies of the Black Mytheme
Chapter 2: Hegemonic (A)Symmetries of Black British Filmic Identity in the 1990s
Chapter 3: Black Cultural Politics and the Management of Racial Difference
Chapter 4: The Hauntological Black Urban Other
Chapter 5: A Storm in Angell Town: Black Youth Delinquency in Storm Damage
Chapter 6: Constructing Black Urbanity: Mediatations of Black-on-Black Criminality
Chapter 7: ‘Fuck Society’: Tower Block Dreams, Adjacent PSB and Urban Subcultural Excessivity
Chapter 8: ‘Kes with Guns’: Bullet Boy and the Urban Text’s Ontological Suture
Chapter 9: Hugging a Hoodie: Broken Britain, Conviviality and the Agnotologies of the Urban Text
Chapter 10: Defensible Black Spaces: Race, British Identity and Architecture in Attack the Block
Chapter 11: Of Simulacra, Performativity and Language: Top Boy, Black Cultural Visibility and the Popular
Chapter 12: Conclusion: The (Un)Exceptional Textures of Black Urbanity
Bibliography
Index