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Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions

Part of the Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice Book Series

Editors: Manigault-Bryant, LeRhonda S.; Lomax, Tamura A.; Duncan, Carol B.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137429568

ISBN: 978-1-349-49187-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 31, 2015

1 - 10 of 16 Chapters

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Introduction

Lomax, Manigault-Bryant; Duncan,

Pages: 1 –13

[Picture yourself sitting in a theater, waiting in anticipation for the lights to dim, the curtains to part, the actors to appear, and a story line to unfold. Imagine the excitement of witnessing new expressions of black cultural life and production, and more significantly, the anticipation of...
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Filmography

Manigault-Bryant, LeRhonda S.; Lomax, Tamura A.; Duncan, Carol B.

Pages: 15 –24
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Tyler Perry Reads Scripture

Junior, Nyasha

Pages: 27 –40

[Popular media forms may be considered biblical in that they include veiled or explicit references to biblical texts, characters, and images. Yet, such usage is often understood as referring to biblical values that are necessarily reflected in biblical content. Tyler Perry’s film Madea’s Big...
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Signifying Love and Embodied Relationality: Toward a Womanist Theological Anthropology

Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A.

Pages: 41 –56

[Stories create phenomenal venues for helping people transcend delusion while affirming reality, and Tyler Perry’s films tell stories about complicated human ontology and existence. His works, with underlying theological, spiritual, and/or religious themes, engage topics many would rather deny....
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Jesus Will Fix It, After While: The Purpose and Role of Gospel Music in Tyler Perry Productions

Allen-McLaurin, Lisa M.

Pages: 57 –72

[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once stated, “music is the universal language of mankind.” Its powers of communication are recognized in every segment of society and used to transcend barriers of culture, class, race, religion, and generation. Nowhere is this perhaps more prevalent than in popular...
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Screening God

White, Andrea C.

Pages: 73 –88

[Tyler Perry’s films propagate two dangerous myths by virtue of their success—the myth that his works celebrate black identity in general and black female identity in particular by foregrounding black women in his story lines, and the myth that his films function as a forum for prophetic...
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“A People That Would Take Care of Ourselves”: Tyler Perry’s Vision of Community and Gender Relations

Tomlinson, Yolande M. S.

Pages: 91 –106

[In a 1979 essay, “The Myth of Black Macho: A Response to Angry Black Feminists,” noted black sociologist Robert Staples unleashes a scathing critique of black feminist writers Ntozake Shange and Michele Wallace, arguing that their critical work and attendant success serve as a proxy for white...
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“It Ain’t Where You Comin’ from, Honey”: Class, Social Mobility, and Marriage in Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion

Duncan, Carol B.

Pages: 107 –123

[This chapter explores representations of class and social mobility and their relationship to marriage as ritual practice and social and economic arrangement in Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion. In doing so, it considers the significance of skin color and shadeism and their links to class and...
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Mad Black Bitches and Ladylike Saints: Representations of African American Womanhood in Tyler Perry Films

Lomax, Tamura A.

Pages: 125 –146

[Hate it or love it, African American filmmaker Tyler Perry is a cultural icon with significant appeal among African American women.1 His films, which typically gross well over $30 million in opening weekends, have netted over $500 million since 2005. Notwithstanding Perry’s predominantly black...
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(Re)Mediating Black Womanhood: Tyler Perry, Black Feminist Cultural Criticism, and the Politics of Legitimation

Peoples, Whitney

Pages: 147 –162

[Best known for his stage and screen portrayal of Madea, the large and tough-talking grandmother central to his work, filmmaker and playwright Tyler Perry has crafted a successful brand and business of producing contemporary African American culture. Perry’s rise to fame, however, has not...

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