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Celluloid Chains: Slavery in the Americas through Film

Edited by Rudyard Alcocer, Edited by Kristen Block, Edited by Dawn Duke

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Featuring a variety of disciplinary perspectives and analytical approaches, Celluloid Chainsis the most comprehensive volume to date on films about slavery. This collection examines works from not only the United States but elsewhere in the Americas, and it attests to slaveryâ€™s continuing importance as a source of immense fascination for filmmakers and their audiences. Each of the bookâ€™s fifteen original essays focuses on a particular film that directly treats the enslavement of Africans and their descendants in the New World. Beginning with an essay on the Cuban film El otro Francisco(1975), Sergio Giralâ€™s reworking of a nineteenth-century abolitionist novel, the book proceeds to examine such works as the landmark miniseries Roots(1977), which sparked intense controversy over its authenticity; Werner Herzogâ€™sCobra Verde(1987), which raises questions about what constitutes a slavery film; Guy Deslauriersâ€™sPassage du milieu(1999), a documentary-style reconstruction of what Africans experienced during the Middle Passage; and Steve McQueenâ€™s Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave(2013), which embodies the tensions between faithfully adapting a nineteenth-century slave narrative and bending it for modern purposes. Films about slavery have shown a special power to portray the worst and best of humanity, and Celluloid Chainsis an essential guide to this important genre.

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