The Moving Image of Racial Capitalism
On Cedric Robinson's Film Writings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5954331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Toscano (0009-0007-5156-5414, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 789-808 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-11963144 |
| OpenAlex | W7102650209 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article undertakes a critical survey of Cedric Robinson's writings on film. It foregrounds the methodological and political insights generated by his understanding of "racial regimes" as pertains to the study of films and genres that consolidate racial orders, while also underscoring how it enhances our appreciation of oppositional cinematic practices. Though critics have taken the idea of racial capitalism to task as idealist, the article emphasizes the attention in Robinson's writings on film - and especially his final book, Forgeries of Memory and Meaning - to the histories and materialities of both political economy (the composition of film capital) and libidinal economy (the role of gender
Capitalism · Composition (language · Meaning (existential · Politics · Task (project management
Cedric J. Robinson
Micheaux
Histories of Racial Capitalism
Against Racial Capitalism
Signification, representation, ideology
The South African tradition of racial capitalism
Producers, Parasites, Patriots
Blaxploitation and the misrepresentation of liberation
Domination and imitation
Cedric Robinson's anthropology of Marxism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |