Framing Blackness The African American Image in Film

Name: Framing Blackness The African American Image in Film
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ISBN: 9781566391269

ISBN-10: 1566391261

ISBN-13: 9781566391269

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Authors: Ed Guerrero

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From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society. Written with the energy and conviction generated by the new black film wave, Framing Blackness traces an ongoing epic-African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks.These images persist despite blacks' irrepressible demands for emancipated images and a role in the industry. Although starkly racist portrayals of blacks in early films have gradually been replaced by more appealing characterizations, the legacy of the plantation genre lives on in Blaxpoitation films, the…

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List price: $32.95
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 11/19/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



From Birth to Blaxploitation: Hollywood's Inscription of Slavery



Slaves, Monsters, and Others: Racial Fragment, Metaphor, and Allegory on the Commercial Screen



The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation



Recuperation, Representation, and Resistance: Black Cinema through the 1980s



Black Film in the 1990s: The New Black Movie Boom and Its Portents


Notes


Bibliography


Index