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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Blaxploitalian
    sub title: 100 years of blackness in Italian cinema
  name:
    name part: Kuwornu, Fred Kudjo
    role:
      role term: director,
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: John, Curtis Caesar
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Cowart, Elliott
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Jackson, Kalon
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Do The Right Films Entertainment
    role:
      role term: production company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentaries and Factual Films
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Documentary films
  genre: Feature films
  genre: Interviews
  genre: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Feature films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  genre: Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ita
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (60 min.)
  abstract: ""Blaxploitalian" is a diasporic, hybrid, critical, and cosmopolitan dimension documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers seldom heard from before: Black actors in Italian cinema starting from 1915 when the first black actor appeared in an Italian film. BlaxploItalian cleverly discloses the personal struggles classic Afro-Italian; African-American; Afro-Caribbean and African diasporic actors faced, correlating it with the contemporary actors who work diligently to find respectable and significant roles. Thus our alternative aim is for the stories in BlaxploItalian to serve as a call-to-action with the intention of challenging worldwide mainstream filmmakers and audiences into calling for an enhancement and practicing of ethnic and racial diversity in casting for important roles within the international film/media industries. The fight for diversity and increased inclusion in the media, specifically film and television, is not limited to the United States or the United Kingdom, but is a global concern. Much like how #OscarsSoWhite exposed this problem to a new generation of filmgoers, what we are doing with our BlaxploItalian documentary is introducing to audiences precisely how global this issue is, starting with one of the last places you expect to find the African diaspora - Italy. Modern-day Italy is racially diverse, yet, if you find it difficult to find noteworthy Black characters in American cinema, not just tokens for a feel-good diversity quotient, it is ten times worse in Italy and throughout Europe. The journey through history that BlaxploItalian uncovers, with 20th century actors from Africa, the USA, and Latin America becoming Italian sensations - all at a cost, juxtaposed with the struggles of contemporary Afro-Italian actors constantly only offered stereotypical roles, can be difficult to witness. But the dedication to their craft despite these tensions is a testament to a better future, ripe with higher possibilities that th…
  target audience: adult
  note: Do the Right Films Entertainment ; a film by Fred Kudjo Kuwornu ; producers, Kalon Jackson, Elliott "Lee" Cowart, Curtis Caesar John, Fred Kudjo Kuwornu.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed August 03, 2018).
  note: Interviewees: Harold Bradley, Germano Gentile, Tztá Abraham, Fiona May, Fred Williamson, Letizia Sedrick, Denny Méndez, Iris Peynado, Salvatore Marino, Jonis Bascir, Livio Beshir, Stefano Morelli, Juliet Esey Joseph, Sheelleen Greene, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto, Derek Duncan, Vito Zagarrio, Leonardo de Franceschi, Antar Marincola, Ed Guerrero, and Curtis John.
  note: In English, with interviews in Italian with English subtitles.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    topic: Black people in the motion picture industry
    geographic: Italy
  subject:
    topic: Actors, Black
    geographic: Italy
    genre: Interviews
  subject:
    topic: Actors, Black
    topic: Employment
    geographic: Italy
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    topic: Casting
    geographic: Italy
  subject:
    topic: Black people in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Personnes noires dans l'industrie cinématographique
    geographic: Italie
  subject:
    topic: Acteurs noirs
    geographic: Italie
    genre: Entretiens
  subject:
    topic: Cinéma
    topic: Distribution artistique
    geographic: Italie
  subject:
    topic: Acteurs noirs
    topic: Travail
    geographic: Italie
  subject:
    topic: Personnes noires au cinéma
  subject:
    topic: Actors, Black
  subject:
    topic: Black people in the motion picture industry
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    topic: Casting
  subject:
    geographic: Italy
  classification: 791.4308996/041
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 180803
    record change date: 20241201232805.7
    record identifier: in00005568663
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng