From Street to Screen : Charles Burnett's <i>Killer of Sheep</i> /

"Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular blaxploitation films of the period, it combines harsh images of the banality of everyday oppression with scenes of lyrical beauty, and depiction...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wall, David C. (Editor), Martin, Michael T. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Burnett, Charles, > 1944-
Burnett, Charles, > 1944- > Criticism and interpretation.
Killer of sheep (Motion picture)
Motion pictures.
African Americans in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Motion pictures > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Killer of sheep : Charles Burnett and the poetry of oppression / David C. Wall and Michael T. Martin
  • Cinema and Black liberation / David E. James
  • Struggles for the sign in the Black Atlantic : Los Angeles Collective of Black filmmakers / Michael T. Martin
  • Charles Burnett : a reconsideration of third cinema / Amy Abugo Ongiri
  • Charles Burnett : consummate cineaste / Michael T. Martin
  • Toward a geo-cinematic hermeneutics : representations of Los Angeles in non-industrial cinema-Killer of sheep and Water and power / David E. James
  • An aesthetic appropriate to conditions : Killer of sheep, (neo)realism, and the documentary impulse / Paula J. Massood
  • Neorealism meets the blues in Charles Burnett's Killer of sheep / Keith Mehlinger
  • Killer of sheep / James Naremore
  • Killer of sheep / Jeffrey Skoller
  • Nous revenons à nos moutons : regarding animals in Charles Burnett's Killer of sheep / Sarah O'Brien.

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