{"product_id":"slave-revolt-on-screen-the-haitian-revolution-in-film-and-video-games-9781496833112","title":"Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games","description":"\u003cb\u003eRecipient of the 2021 Honorary Mention for the Haiti Book Prize from the Haitian Studies Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSlave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games \u003c\/i\u003eauthor Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall analyzes how films and video games from around the world have depicted slave revolt, focusing on the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). This event, the first successful revolution by enslaved people in modern history, sent shock waves throughout the Atlantic World. Regardless of its historical significance however, this revolution has become less well-known--and appears less often on screen--than most other revolutions; its story, involving enslaved Africans liberating themselves through violence, does not match the suffering-slaves-waiting-for-a-white-hero genre that pervades Hollywood treatments of Black history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDespite Hollywood's near-silence on this event, some films on the Revolution do exist--from directors in Haiti, the US, France, and elsewhere. \u003ci\u003eSlave Revolt on Screen\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first-ever comprehensive analysis of Haitian Revolution cinema, including completed films and planned projects that were never made. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn addition to studying cinema, this book also breaks ground in examining video games, a pop-culture form long neglected by historians. Sepinwall scrutinizes video game depictions of Haitian slave revolt that appear in games like the\u003ci\u003e Assassin's Creed \u003c\/i\u003eseries that have reached millions more players than comparable films. In analyzing films and games on the revolution, \u003ci\u003eSlave Revolt on Screen\u003c\/i\u003e calls attention to the ways that economic legacies of slavery and colonialism warp pop-culture portrayals of the past and leave audiences with distorted understandings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlyssa Goldstein Sepinwall\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at California State University San Marcos, where she is a past winner of the university's Brakebill Outstanding Professor Award. She is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism\u003c\/i\u003e and of \u003ci\u003eHaitian History: New Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been published in such journals and edited collections as \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Haitian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRaoul Peck: Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50482405212434,"sku":"9781496833112","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e347751c-76b0-4bab-af5a-28025853a1e6.jpg?v=1730343895","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/slave-revolt-on-screen-the-haitian-revolution-in-film-and-video-games-9781496833112","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}