Post-soul Black cinema : discontinuities, innovations, and breakpoints, 1970-1995 /
This work examines and analyzes how the cinematic image of African Americans became a fixed image with strict rules of depiction both written and unwritten. And, how those very limited and under-informed images would not and could not be challenged or transformed until the power relations in the Ame...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2012].
©2004. |
| Series: | Studies in African American history and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Rebirth
- The stereotype
- Literature review
- Chapter descriptions
- Race and representation in the classical style
- The classical Hollywood cinema
- Early images of Blacks in American cinema
- The political economy of blaxploitation
- We shall overcome
- A star is dying: Sidney Poitier and the death of Uncle Tom
- The big break and a hero named Sweetback
- The great flood
- Cashing in and selling out
- I see death around the corner
- Do the right thing revisited
- The check is in the mail
- Pre-production, film trade unions, and doing the right thing
- Do the right thing meets the press
- Check the gate: Black cinema at the crossroads
- Does we still have to shuffle?
- Re-thinking a Black film aesthetic.