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African American actresses : the struggle for visibility, 1900 - 1960 / Charlene Regester Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2010.
Call No: 802.27(73)-054(=96) REGAuthor: Regester, Charlene Source: USPlace: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: c2010PhysDes: xi, 405 p., 14 p. of plates : ill. 23 cmSubject: BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US ; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA ; MADAME SUL-TE-WAN ; BEAVERS, LOUISE ; MCKINNEY, NINA MAE ; WASHINGTON, FREDI ; MCDANIEL, HATTIE ; HORNE, LENA ; SCOTT, HAZEL ; WATERS, ETHEL ; DANDRIDGE, DOROTHY ISBN: 9780253221926Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013Contents: Introduction -- Madame Sul-Te-Wan : the struggle for visibility -- Nina Mae McKinney : early success and tumultuous career -- Louise Beavers : negotiating racial difference -- Fredi Washington : the masquerades and the masks -- Hattie McDaniel : centering the margin -- Lena Horne : actress and activist -- Hazel Scott : resistance to othering -- Ethel Waters : personification of otherness -- Dorothy Dandridge : intertwining the reel and the real -- Conclusion
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American history/American film : interpreting the Hollywood image / edited by John E. O'Connor and Martin A. Jackson ; foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr New York: Ungar, c1979.
Call No: 409(73) AMEAuthor: O'Connor, John E ; Jackson, Martin A Place: New YorkPublisher: UngarPubDate: c1979PhysDes: xxix, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US ; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS. USA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORICAL FILMS. USA ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND (US, John Ford, 1935) ; SCAR OF SHAME, THE (US, Frank Peregini, 1927) ; PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931) ; WAY DOWN EAST (US, David Wark Griffith, 1920) ; BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925) ; DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (US, John Ford, 1939) ; MISSION TO MOSCOW (US, Michael Curtiz, 1943) ; BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (US, William Wyler, 1946) ; RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948) ; VIVA ZAPATA (US, Elia Kazan, 1952) ; INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956) ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; ROCKY (US, John G. Avildsen, 1976) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography p. 279-282ISBN: 0804422635 : $12.50; 0804466165(pbk. :) $3.95LON: 1282547
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Black African cinema / Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Call No: 71(6) UKAAuthor: Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: x, 371 p. : ill.; 24 cmSubject: IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AFRICAN COUNTRIES ; AFRICAN COUNTRIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AFRICAN COUNTRIES ; BLACK FILMMAKERS. AFRICAN COUNTRIES ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. AFRICAN COUNTRIES ; SEMBENE, OUSMANE ; CISSE, SOULEYMANE ; ANSAH, KWAW PAINTSIL ; ESCARE, DESIRE ; BALOGUN, OLA ; FANON, FRANTZ ; HONDO, MED ; VISAGES DE FEMMES (IV, Desire Ecare, 1985) ; FINZAN (ML, Cheik Omar Sissoko, 1990) ; WEND KUUNI (UV, Gaston Kabore, 1982) ; EMITAI (SG, Ousmane Sembene, 1972) ; CEDDO (SG, Ousmane Sembene, 1977) ; YEELEN (ML, Souleymane Cisse, 1987) ; BAL POUSSIERE (IV, Henri Duparc, 1988) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-355) and indexISBN: 0520077474 (cloth : alk. paper); 0520077482 (paper)LON: 9270979
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Black cinema / The Black Filmmaker Foundation [New York]: Black Filmmaker Foundation, copyright 1982.
Call No: 027 BLAAuthor: Black Filmmaker Foundation Edition: second editionSource: USPlace: [New York]Publisher: Black Filmmaker FoundationPubDate: copyright 1982PhysDes: 62 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmSubject: BLACK FILMMAKER FOUNDATION ; BLACK FILMMAKERS ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA ; BLACK CINEMA ; BLACKS IN FILMS Summary: "The Black Filmmaker Foundation is pleased to present the second edition of its catalogue of film and video works by black independent producers. This edition represents an expansion in the number of titles, subject areas, film and video makers. These works represent the black experience in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and England." - INTRODUCTIONNotes: Includes index pages 60-61Contents: Fiction films -- Documentary films -- Animation and experimental -- Videp
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Black cinema treasures : lost and found / by G. William Jones ;foreword by Ossie Davis Denton: University of North Texas, 1991.
Call No: 721-054(=96) JONAuthor: Jones, G. William (George William), 1931 Edition: 1st edPlace: DentonPublisher: University of North TexasPubDate: 1991PhysDes: 242 p. : illSubject: BLACK FILMMAKERS. US ; BLACKS, FILMS MADE BY. US ; BLACKS, FILMS FOR. US ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US ; LOST FILMS. US ; DAVIS, OSSIE ; MICHEAUX, OSCAR ; WILLIAMS, SPENCER ; ALEXANDER, WILLIAM ; RANDOL, GEORGE Notes: Includes bibliography, filmography and indexISBN: 0929398262 (alk. paper) : $29.95LON: 91010882; 7916318
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Black film, British cinema London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1988.
Call No: 451-054(=9) BLACorpAuthor: Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)Place: LondonPublisher: Institute of Contemporary ArtsPubDate: 1988PhysDes: 62 p. : ill. ; 30 cmSeries: ICA documents ; 7Subject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. UK ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. UK ; BLACK FILMMAKERS. UK ; BLACKS IN FILMS. UK ; ASIANS IN FILMS. UK ; BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE ; SANKOVA FILM AND VIDEO COLLECTIVE ; CHANNEL FOUR ; HANDSWORTH SONGS (UK, John Akomfrah, 1986) ; MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (UK, Stephen Frears, 1985) ; PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE, THE (UK, Maureen Blackwood & Isaac Julien, 1986) Notes: Papers originally presented at a day conference, conducted at ICA, Feb. 1988; Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 0905263960LON: 6631335
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Black film review Washington, DC: Domino Impressions, 1984?.
Call No: held vol.5 no.1-vol.7 no.1 Winter 1988-1991 incompleteCorpAuthor: Sojourner Productions, Inc; University of the District of Columbia. Black Film InstituteSource: USPlace: Washington, DCPublisher: Domino ImpressionsPubDate: 1984?PhysDes: v. : ill. ; 28-30 cmSubject: BLACKS AND THE CINEMA Notes: Title from captionISSN: 0887-5723Frequency: QuarterlyLON: 87640202; 5442693
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Blacks in American films : Today and yesterday / by Edward Mapp Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1972.
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Cinema of outsiders : the rise of American independent film / Emanuel Levy New York: New York University Press, c1999.
Call No: 71(73) LEVAuthor: Levy, Emanuel, 1947 Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: New York University PressPubDate: c1999PhysDes: xiii, 601 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; OUTSIDERS IN FILMS ; MEN IN FILMS ; FILM NOIR ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; COMEDIES. USA ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US ; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA ; YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CINEMA ; FESTIVALS. PARK CITY. SUNDANCE ; ARAKI, GREGG ; NUNEZ, VICTOR ; BROOKS, ALBERT ; SMITH, KEVIN ; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN ; FERRARA, ABEL ; WATERS, JOHN (US) ; HARTLEY, HAL ; HAYNES, TODD ; JARMUSCH, JIM ; JOST, JON ; LEE, SPIKE ; LINKLATER, RICHARD ; LYNCH, DAVID ; MAMET, DAVID ; NAIR, MIRA ; SAYLES, JOHN ; CASSAVETES, NICK ; SODERBERGH, STEVEN ; SOLONDZ, TODD ; SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (US, Steven Soderbergh, 1989) ; BLOOD SIMPLE (US, Joel Coen, 1984) ; BOYZ N THE HOOD (US, John Singleton, 1991) ; IN THE COMPANY OF MEN (US, Neil Labute, 1997) ; GAS FOOD LODGING (US, Allison Anders, 1992) ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) ; RESERVOIR DOGS (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1992) ; MEAN STREETS (US, Martin Scorsese, 1973) Summary: "Cinema of Outsiders is the first and only comprehensive chronicle of contemporary independent movies from the late 1970s up to the present. From the hip, audacious early works of maverick David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, and Spike Lee, to the contemporary Oscar-winning success of indie dynamos, such as the Coen brothers (Fargo), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), and Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade), Levy describes in a lucid and accessible manner the innovation and diversity of American indies in theme, sensibility, and style."--BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-571) and indexISBN: 0814751237 (alk. paper)LON: 20253533
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Heavenly bodies : film stars and society / Richard Dyer London: Routledge, 2004.
Call No: 465.1 DYEAuthor: Dyer, Richard Edition: second editionSource: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2004PhysDes: 210 p. ; 24 cmSubject: SEX IN FILMS ; STARS ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US ; BLACKS IN FILMS ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS ; MONROE, MARILYN ; ROBESON, PAUL ; GARLAND, JUDY Summary: Focusing on the lives and careers of three of the biggest names in Hollywood history – Marilyn Monroe, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland – Dyer details how their screen image was constructed. Through subtle readings of their films and wealth of background material, he goes on to survey the development of each star’s image in relation to particular social groups. Monroe is discussed in the context of 1950s sexuality and the image of woman; Robeson in terms of black identity and different white and black perceptions of it; and Garland as a gay icon. All three are set in the wider context of the social significance of the very idea of stardom.ISBN: 041531027X
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Heavenly Bodies : film stars and society / Richard Dyer Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1986.
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Irish and African American Cinema : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000 / Maria Pramaggiore Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.
Call No: 451-054(=1 .415/.73) PRAAuthor: Pramaggiore, Maria Source: USPlace: AlbanyPublisher: State University of New York PressPubDate: 2007PhysDes: ix, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/videoSubject: BLACKS IN FILMS ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA ; WHITES IN FILMS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. IRELAND ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA ; IDENTITY IN FILMS ; THEORY ; LEE, SPIKE ; JORDAN, NEIL Summary: "Focusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two dozen Irish and African American films, including Do the Right Thing, In the Name of the Father, The Crying Game, Boyz N the Hood, The Snapper, and He Got Game, arguing that these films foreground practices of character identification that complicate essentialist notions of national and racial identity. The porous sense of self associated with moments of identification in these films offers a cinematic counterpart to W. E. B. Du Bois's potent concept of double consciousness, an epistemological standpoint derived from experiences of colonization, racialization, and cultural disruption. Characters in these films, Pramaggiore suggests, reject the national paradigm of insider and outsider in favor of diasporic both/and notions of self, thereby endorsing the postmodern concept of identity as performance."--BOOK JACKET.Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-237) and indexISBN: 9780791470954Contents: Ch. 1. Identifying others -- Ch. 2. Sampling blackness : music and identification in the films of Neil Jordan and Spike Lee -- Ch. 3. "It's a wise child that knows his own father" : pregnant performances and maternal mythologies -- Ch. 4. Culturing violence : masculine identification in Irish and African American gangster films -- Ch. 5. "Both sides of the epic" : identification and the nonessentialist Western -- Conclusion : film identification and postmodern identity politics.
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L.A. Rebellion : creating a new black cinema / edited by Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015.
Call No: 82LAR LARSource: USPlace: Oakland, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2015PhysDes: xxviii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: BLAXPLOITATION FILMS ; LOS ANGELES IN FILMS ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US ; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA ; BLACKS, FILMS MADE BY ; BLACKS, FILMS MADE BY. US ; L.A. REBELLION Summary: "L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s. The group--including Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Billy Woodberry, Jamaa Fanaka, and Zeinabu irene Davis--shared a desire to create alternatives to the dominant modes of narrative, style, and practice in American cinema, works that reflected the full complexity of Black experiences. This landmark collection of essays and oral histories examines the creative output of the L.A. Rebellion, contextualizing the group's film practices and offering sustained analyses of the wide range of works, with particular attention to newly discovered films and lesser-known filmmakers. Based on extensive archival work and preservation, this collection includes a complete filmography of the movement, over 100 illustrations (most of which are previously unpublished), and a bibliography of primary and secondary materials. This is an indispensible sourcebook for scholars and enthusiasts, establishing the key role played by the L.A. Rebellion within the histories of cinema, Black visual culture, and postwar art in Los Angeles"--Provided by publisherNotes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-425) and index -- Filmography: pages (pages 355-402)ISBN: 9780520284685Contents: Preface : Once upon a time in the West...L.A. Rebellion / Clyde Taylor -- Introduction : Emancipating the image : the L.A. Rebellion of black filmmakers -- Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart -- Threads and nets : the L.A. Rebellion in retrospect and in motion / Chuck Kleinhans -- Rebellious unlearning : UCLA Project One films (1967-1978) / Allyson Nadia Field -- Tough enough : Blaxploitation and the L.A. Rebellion / Jan-Christopher Horak -- Anticipations of the rebellion : black music and politics in some earlier cinemas / David E. James -- Re/soundings : music and the political goals of the L.A. Rebellion / Morgan Woolsey -- Struggles for the Sign in the Black Atlantic: Los Angeles collective of black filmmakers / Michael T. Martin -- Bruising moments : affect and the L.A. Rebellion / Samantha N. Sheppard -- The L.A. Rebellion plays itself / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart -- Encountering the rebellion : liquid blackness reflects on the expansive possibilities of the L.A. Rebellion films / Alessandra Raengo -- Part two : L.A. Rebellion oral histories (pages 321-353)
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The Oxford handbook of the American musical / Edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 2013.
Call No: 751.1(73) OXFAuthor: Knapp, Raymond ; Morris, Mitchell ; Wolf, Stacy Edition: paperbackSource: US/UKPlace: Oxford ; New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 2011, 2013PhysDes: x, 470 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmSubject: AUDIENCES ; AUTHORSHIP ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US ; BOX OFFICE. USA ; COMEDIES ; DANCE IN FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HOLLYWOOD ; IDENTITY IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS ; MEDIA AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSICALS. USA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA ; ANDREWS, JULIE ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; BERLIN, IRVING ; FOSSE, BOB ; HAMMERSTEIN, OSCAR, II ; KERN, JEROME ; MERMAN, ETHEL ; ROBBINS, JEROME ; SONDHEIM, STEPHEN ; BLACK CROOK, THE (US, Robert G. Vignola, 1916) ; CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972) ; CHICAGO (US, Rob Marshall, 2002) ; CHORUS LINE (US, Richard Attenborough, 1985) ; FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (US, Norman Jewison, 1971) ; GUYS AND DOLLS (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955) ; GYPSY (US, Emile Ardolino, 1994) ; MY FAIR LADY (US, George Cukor, 1964) ; OKLAHOMA! (US, Fred Zinneman, 1955) ; PRODUCERS, THE (US, Mel Brooks, 1967) ; SHOWBOAT (US, George Sidney, 1951) ; SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1965) ; WEST SIDE STORY (US, Robert Wise, 1961) Summary: "The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offers a cross-section of essays written by leading experts in the field, organized within broad conceptual groups, which together capture the breadth, direction, and tone of musicals studies today." - GOOGLE BOOKSNotes: Includes bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9780199987368Contents: Part I: Historiography. Narratives and values / Mitchell Morris -- Texts and authors / Jim Lovensheimer -- Musical styles and song conventions / Paul R. Laird -- Evolution of dance in the golden age of the American "book musical" / Liza Gennaro; Part II: Transformations. Minstrelsy and theatrical miscegenation / Thomas L. Riis -- Tin Pan Alley songs on stage and screen before World War II / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris -- Integration / Geoffrey Block -- After the "golden age" / Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth L. Wollman; Part III: Media. Theater / Tamsen Wolff -- The filmed musical / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris -- The television musical / Robynn J. Stilwell -- The animated film musical / Susan Smith -- The evolution of the original cast album / George Reddick; Part IV: Identities. Race, ethnicity, performance / Todd Decker -- Gender and sexuality / Stacy Wolf -- The politics of region and nation in American musicals / Chase A. Bringardner -- Class and culture / David Savran; Part V: Performance. The institutional structure of the American musical theater / David Sanjek -- Orchestration and arrangement : creating the Broadway sound / Dominic Symonds -- Musical theater directors / Barbara Wallace Grossman -- Sets, costumes, lights, and spectacle / Virginia Anderson -- Acting / John M. Clum -- Singing / Mitchell Morris and Raymond Knapp -- Dance and choreography / Zachary A. Dorsey; Part VI: Audiences. Box office / Steven Adler -- Audiences and critics / Michelle Dvoskin -- Stars and fans / Holley Replogle-Wong -- Knowing your audience / Jennifer Chapman -- Performance, authenticity, and the reflexive idealism of the American musical / Raymond Knapp
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Postnationalist African Cinemas / by Alexie Tcheuyap Manchester: Manchester University Press : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Call No: 71(6) TCHAuthor: Tcheuyap, Alexie Source: UK/USPlace: ManchesterPublisher: Manchester University Press : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2011PhysDes: xii, 269 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: AFRICAN COUNTRIES ; AFRICA IN FILMS ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. AFRICAN COUNTRIES ; BLACKS IN FILMS ; BLACK CINEMA Summary: Book on African Cinema - looking at comedy, choreography, crime, society, myth, sexuality, witchcraft, and African cinema today.Notes: Filmography: p. 255-258; Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-255) and indexISBN: 9780719083358Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- 1.African cinema and national(ist) constructions -- 2.Wealth and poverty of nationalist scholarship -- 3.Postnational(ist) imaginary and new paradigms -- 4.Structure of the book -- Notes -- ch. 1 Comedy and film -- 1.Comedic archetypes -- 2.Verbal and visual comedy -- Notes -- ch. 2 Choreographing subjects -- 1.Dance on stage -- 2.Dance, syntax and discourse -- Notes -- ch. 3 Crimes, society and the `commandement' -- 1.Africa and theories of (impossible) crime fiction -- 2.Absent investigation and the triumph of the commandement -- 3.Flawed investigations and the decline of the commandement -- Notes -- ch. 4 Myth, tragedy and cinema -- 1.On African cultural `specificity' and tragic forms -- 2.Oedipal conflicts, enemy brothers and families in crisis -- 3.Absolutism, oracles and the tragic -- Notes -- ch. 5 Epic constructions -- 1.Narrative performance -- 2.Epic magnification -- Notes -- ch. 6 (Un)masked sexuality --
1.African sexuality as category of analysis -- 2.Sex in the nation and the trouble with representation -- 3.Framing bodies and the temptation of pornography -- Notes -- ch. 7 Witchcraft and the postcolonial -- 1.From sorcery imaginary to the imaginary sorcerer -- 2.Occult side of power, power of the occult -- Notes -- conclusion: what is Africa cinema (today)? -- notes -- bibliography and filmography -- index --
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Recontextualizing the historical reception of Blaxploitation : articulations of class, black nationalism, and anxiety in the genre's advertisements in Velvet Light trap (2002) vol.50 p.48-61
Author: Kraszewski, Jon PhysDes: ArticleSubject: BLAXPLOITATION FILMS ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA ; BLACKS IN FILMS ; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS ; BLACULA (US, William Crain, 1972) ; I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA (US, Keenen Ivory Wayans, 1988) ; JACKIE BROWN (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1997) ; SHAFT (US, Gordon Parks Jr., 1971) ; SHAFT (US, John Singleton, 2000) ; SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (US, Melvin Van Peebles, 1971) Summary: This is a study of blaxploitation advertisements and the genre, examing the complex relationship between blaxpoitaton text and spectator. The heterogeneous identity at play within blaxploitation's black spectators is examined. Class becomes important to studying blaxploitation and its audience not because it demarcates a subgenre that diverged in interest from other films concerned with violence and ultrasexuality but because class - specifically the way in functions in blaxploitation advertisements - can help reconceptualize the blackness of blaxploitation and its spectators in more dynamic ways. The genre is situated in a complex historical moment where three relatively autonomous influences on black identity operated simultaneously.
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Reel to real : race, sex, and class at the movies / Bell Hooks New York, NY: Routledge, 1996.
Call No: 744 HOOAuthor: Hooks, Bell Place: New York, NYPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1996PhysDes: 244 p. ; 24 cmSubject: RACE AND THE CINEMA ; SEX AND THE CINEMA ; CLASS AND THE CINEMA ; BLACKS IN FILMS ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; LOOK IN FILMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA ; DEATH IN FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; STRIPTEASE IN FILMS ; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; Tarantino, Quentin ; LEE, SPIKE ; DASH, JULIE ; CLARK, LARRY ; JAFFA, ARTHUR ; BURNETT, CHARLES ; BILLOPS, CAMILLE ; ALDERMAN, MARIE-FRANCE ; WANG, WAYNE ; LIVINGSTON, JENNIE ; KILLER OF SHEEP (US, Charles Burnett, 1978) ; GIRL 6 (US, Spike Lee, 1996) ; CROOKLYN (US, Spike Lee, 1994) ; WAITING TO EXHALE (US, Forest Whitaker, 1995) ; LEAVING LAS VEGAS (US, Mike Figgis, 1995) ; EXOTICA (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1994) ; ATTENDANT, THE (UK, Isaac Julien, 1992) ; FINDING CHRISTA (US, Camille Billops/James Hatch, 1991) ; KIDS (US, Larry Clark, 1995) ; HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994) ; PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990) ; SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (US, Spike Lee, 1986) ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0415918235 (HB : acid-free cover); 0415918243 (PB : acid-free cover)LON: 96026474; 12664107
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