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Black American cinema / edited by Manthia Diawara.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- AFI film readers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in motion pictures.
- African American motion picture producers and directors.
- Experimental films--United States--History and criticism.
- Experimental films.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 324 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 1993.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1993]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In this volume, the work of early Black filmmakers is given serious attention for the first time. Individual essays consider such topics as what a Black film tradition might be, the relation between Black American Filmmakers and filmmakers from the diaspora, the nature of Black film aesthetics, the artist's place within the community, and the representation of Black imaginary.
- Contents:
- Black American cinema : the new realism / Manthia Diawara
- "Twoness" in the style of Oscar Micheaux / J. Ronald Green
- Fire and desire : race, melodrama, and Oscar Micheaux / Jane Gaines
- Oscar Micheaux : the story continues / Thomas Cripps
- The black writer in Hollywood, circa 1930 : the case of Wallace Thurman / Phyllis Klotman
- Is Car wash a black musical? / Richard Dyer
- The Los Angeles school of black filmmakers / Ntongela Masilela
- Reading the signs, empowering the eye : Daughters of the dust and the black independent cinema movement / Toni Cade Bambara
- Spike Lee at the movies / Amiri Baraka
- Spike Lee and the commerce of culture / Houston A. Baker, Jr.
- The ironies of palace-subaltern discourse / Clyde Taylor
- Looking for modernism / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Black spectatorship : problems of identification and resistance / Manthia Diawara
- The Harlem theatre : black film exhibition in Austin, Texas : 1920-1973 / Dan Streible
- The black image in protective custody : Hollywood's biracial buddy films of the eighties / Ed Guerrero
- The construction of black sexuality : towards normalizing the black cinematic experience / Jacquie Jones
- Race, gender, and psychoanalysis in forties film : Lost boundaries, Home of the brave, and The quiet one / Michele Wallace
- Reading through the text : the black woman as audience / Jacqueline Bobo
- The oppositional gaze : black female spectators / Bell Hooks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-310) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780203873304
- 0203873300
- Publisher Number:
- 99990699296
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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