Format:
X, 324 S
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9780415903974
,
0415903971
,
0415903963
Series Statement:
AFI film readers
Content:
This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American filmmakers have played a remarkable role in the development of the American film, both independent and mainstream. In this volume, the work of early Black filmmakers is given serious attention for the first time. Individual essays consider 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 a Black imaginary. Black American Cinema also uncovers the construction of Black sexuality on screen, the role of Black women in independent cinema, and the specific question of Black female spectatorship. A lively and provocative group of essays debate the place and significance of Spike Lee. Of crucial importance are the ways in which the essays analyze those Black directors who worked for Hollywood and whose films are simplistically dismissed as sell-outs, to the Hollywood "master narrative," as well as those "crossover" filmmakers whose achievements entail a surreptitious infiltration of the studios. Black American Cinema demonstrates the wealth of the Black contribution to American film and the complex course that contribution has taken.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (S. 303-310) and index
,
Black American cinema : the new realism
,
"Twoness" in the style of Oscar Micheaux
,
Fire and desire : race, melodrama, and Oscar Micheaux
,
Oscar Micheaux : the story continues
,
The black writer in Hollywood, circa 1930 : the case of Wallace Thurman
,
Is Car wash a black musical?
,
The Los Angeles school of black filmmakers
,
Reading the signs, empowering the eye : Daughters of the dust and the black independent cinema movement
,
Spike Lee at the movies
,
Spike Lee and the commerce of culture
,
The ironies of palace-subaltern discourse
,
Looking for modernism
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Black american cinema New York : Routledge, 1993 ISBN 9780203873304
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
USA
;
Film
;
Experimentalfilm
;
Amerika
;
Schwarze
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Diawara, Manthia 1953-
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