Rebecca Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4895730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Spelman College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9695-6853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Being Brown, Being Down
Truths are in here, or what The X-Files taught me about breast milk
This essay traces the epistemological implications of maternal grief through a meditation on a rogue stain of my hand expressed breast milk on an X-Files fan poster. I reorient the television show's mantra—“The truth is out there”—to argue that truths, for this postpartum brown femme, are located within: interior and embodied. Leveraging feminist theory and cultural critique, breast milk is situated as both a biological and sociopolitical text ma…
Resisting Analogies
In this chapter the author recounts her experience teaching Shakespearean film at a historically Black college (HBCU). She reminds instructors that despite the supposed fluidity of race and racism in the early modern period, in our contemporary world cinema has been used as a technology of antiBlackness—often in the name of Shakespeare. By charting adaptations of Othello from early cinema onwards, the author outlines how the film industry has use…
You're in the Middle of the World”
Despite Barry Jenkins's pronounced and intentional allusions to the work of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai, film scholars have generally made little of the pervasive Asian elements in Moonlight (2016). This essay, however, offers a sustained study of the film's aesthetic and political engagement with Wong's cinema. It highlights how the distinct Asian femininity, or ornamentalism, of Days of Being Wild (1990) and In the Mood for Love (2001) are tr…
Lesbian and Femme Care at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT, 19-29 January 2023
Review of: Lesbian and Femme Care at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT, 19–29 January 2023
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Lesbian and Femme Care at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT, 19-29 January 2023
Review of: Lesbian and Femme Care at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT, 19–29 January 2023
Resisting Analogies
In this chapter the author recounts her experience teaching Shakespearean film at a historically Black college (HBCU). She reminds instructors that despite the supposed fluidity of race and racism in the early modern period, in our contemporary world cinema has been used as a technology of antiBlackness—often in the name of Shakespeare. By charting adaptations of Othello from early cinema onwards, the author outlines how the film industry has use…
You're in the Middle of the World”
Despite Barry Jenkins's pronounced and intentional allusions to the work of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai, film scholars have generally made little of the pervasive Asian elements in Moonlight (2016). This essay, however, offers a sustained study of the film's aesthetic and political engagement with Wong's cinema. It highlights how the distinct Asian femininity, or ornamentalism, of Days of Being Wild (1990) and In the Mood for Love (2001) are tr…
Being Brown, Being Down
Truths are in here, or what The X-Files taught me about breast milk
This essay traces the epistemological implications of maternal grief through a meditation on a rogue stain of my hand expressed breast milk on an X-Files fan poster. I reorient the television show's mantra—“The truth is out there”—to argue that truths, for this postpartum brown femme, are located within: interior and embodied. Leveraging feminist theory and cultural critique, breast milk is situated as both a biological and sociopolitical text ma…
African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · Ancestor (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Australian History and Society (1 work) · Blame (1 work) · Breast feeding (1 work) · brown skin (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)