Blackframes : critical perspectives on Black independent cinema / [editors, Mbye B. Cham, Claire Andrade-Watkins].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cham, Mbye B.

Andrade-Watkins, Claire.

Celebration of Black Cinema, Inc.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people in the motion picture industry.

Black people in motion pictures.

Independent filmmakers.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

85 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Black frames.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [1988]

Summary:

This collection of eight original essays by noted scholars, critics, and practitioners of independent Black cinema offers a rare global and systematic examination of what is unique and what is common to the making of films in English-speaking Africa, in the United States, and in Britain.

Contents:

Images of Blacks in black independent films / James A. Snead

The cultural context of Black British cinema / Jim Pines

Film in anglophone Africa / Manthia Diawara

Diaspora culture and the dialogic imagination / Kobena Mercer

Thoughts on nomadic aesthetics and the Black independent cinema / Teshome H. Gabriel

We don't need another hero / Clyde Taylor.

Notes:

"Celebration of Black Cinema, Inc."

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

0262530805

OCLC:

19322011