1 option
From Sambo to Superspade : the Black experience in motion pictures / by Daniel J. Leab.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.N4 L4 1975
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leab, Daniel J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in motion pictures.
- United States of America.
- Local Subjects:
- United States of America.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the lack of humanity
- The gamut from A to B
- The birth of a nation
- The freezing of an image
- "All-Colored"
- but not very different
- Shufflin' into sound
- A limited response
- Glimmers of change
- A pale Black imitation
- Toward a new image
- Black is boxoffice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Leab, Daniel J. From Sambo to Superspade.
- ISBN:
- 0395194024
- 9780395194027
- OCLC:
- 1324472
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.