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Trying to get over : African American directors after blaxploitation, 1977-1986 /

<P>From 1972 to 1976, Hollywood made an unprecedented number of films targeted at black audiences. But following this era known as "blaxploitation," the momentum suddenly reversed for black filmmakers, and a large void separates the end of blaxploitation from the black film explosion...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Corson, Keith (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Blaxploitation Reconsidered: African American Directors and the Political Economy of Hollywood
  • Our Man in Hollywood: Creativity and Compromise in the Films of Michael Schultz
  • Writing His Second Act: Sidney Poitier's Move Behind the Camera
  • Think Locally, Act Globally: Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, Low-Budget Genre Filmmaking, and the Struggle for Self-Definition
  • Outside of Society: Jamaa Fanaka, the LA Rebellion, and the Complications of Independent Filmmaking
  • Dreams Deferred: Untapped Potential, the Transformation of Black Popular Culture, and the Cinematic Legacies of Gilbert Moses and Stan Lathan
  • Dirty Minds Reformed: Celebrity, Power, and the Directorial Turns of Richard Pryor and Prince.