Shooting the Movement
Black Panther Party Photography and African American Protest Traditions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T N Phu (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 165-189 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.38.1.165 |
| OpenAlex | W4241971224 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
Although the failure of the Black Panther Party has often been attributed to the violence which consumed it, the photographic record suggests otherwise. This paper argues that the movement in fact developed a striking and self-aware protest aesthetic. Moreover, this still influential self-referential visuality emphasized the spectacular forms of defiance, contributing, in doing so, to African American traditions of protest conventionally rooted in the oral tradition. A focus on Black Panther Party photography helps account for how the rhetorical violence which focused the BPP's protest aesthetic became complexly indistinguishable from violent realization
Aesthetics · Art · Focus (optics · Literature · Movement (music · Photography · Realization (probability · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |