Black American Cinema

Name: Black American Cinema
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ISBN: 9780415903974

ISBN-10: 0415903971

ISBN-13: 9780415903974

Edition: 1993

Authors: Manthia Diawara

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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 Cinemaalso…

Book details

List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/18/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



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




Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance




The Harlem Theatre: Black Film Exhibition in Austin, Texas: 1920-1973




The Black Image in Protective Custody: Hollywood's Biracial Buddy Films of the Eighties




The Construction of Black Sexuality: Towards Normalizing the Black Cinematic Experience




Race, Gender, and Psychoanalysis in Forties Film: Lost Boundaries, Home of the Brave, and The Quiet One




Reading Through the Text: The Black Woman as Audience




The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators



Bibliography



List of Contributors


Index