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Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in The Spook Who Sat by the Door /

Ivan Dixon's 1973 film The Spook Who Sat by the Door captures the intensity of social and political upheaval during a volatile period in American history. Based on Sam Greenlee's novel by the same name, the film is a searing portrayal of an American black underclass brought to the brink of...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Greenlee, Sam, 1930-2014, Yaquinto, Marilyn (Editor), Wall, David C. (Editor), Martin, Michael T. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The spook who sat by the door / Michael T. Martin and David Wall
  • Writer/producer's statement: the making of The spook who sat by the door / Sam Greenlee
  • "[D]uality is a survival tool. it's not a disease": interview with Sam Greenlee on The spook who sat by the door / Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall
  • Cinema as political activism: contemporary meanings in The spook who sat by the door
  • Marilyn Yaquinto
  • Persistently displaced: situated knowledges and interrelated histories in The spook who sat by the door / Samantha N. Sheppard
  • Subverting the system: the politics and production of The spook who sat by the door / Christine Acham
  • The spook who sat by the door, screenplay / Sam Greenlee and Melvin Clay.