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Soul searching : Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the rise of blaxploitation / Christopher Sieving.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.N4 S54 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sieving, Christopher.
- Series:
- Wesleyan film
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in motion pictures.
- African Americans in the motion picture industry.
- Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The march on Hollywood: Gone are the days and the integration picture
- Ghetto travelogue: The cool world, Harlem, and the new American cinema
- The concessions of Nat Turner: the instant demise of the Black prestige picture
- The battle of Cleveland: Uptight and the urban Black revolution film
- Black Hollywood meets new Hollywood: The landlord and the racial impasse film of 1970
- Conclusion: 1960s African American cinema and the birth of blaxploitation.
- Notes:
- Based on author's dissertation (doctoral) -- University of Wisconsin at Madison.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780819571328
- 0819571326
- 9780819571335
- 0819571334
- 9780819571342
- 0819571342
- OCLC:
- 666220282
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