Post-soul Black cinema : discontinuities, innovations, and breakpoints, 1970-1995 /

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Post-Soul Black Cinema traces the movement of African American filmmakers and images, as they move from the margins to the mainstream of American cinema.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Grant, W. R., 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Studies in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
African Americans in motion pictures.
Noirs américains au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Filmkunst.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rebirth
  • The stereotype
  • Literature review
  • Chapter descriptions
  • Race and representation in the classical style
  • The classical Hollywood cinema
  • Early images of Blacks in American cinema
  • The political economy of blaxploitation
  • We shall overcome
  • A star is dying: Sidney Poitier and the death of Uncle Tom
  • The big break and a hero named Sweetback
  • The great flood
  • Cashing in and selling out
  • I see death around the corner
  • Do the right thing revisited
  • The check is in the mail
  • Pre-production, film trade unions, and doing the right thing
  • Do the right thing meets the press
  • Check the gate: Black cinema at the crossroads
  • Does we still have to shuffle?
  • Re-thinking a Black film aesthetic.

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