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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.