Redefining Black Film

Name: Redefining Black Film
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ISBN: 9780520079021

ISBN-10: 0520079027

ISBN-13: 9780520079021

Edition: 1994

Authors: Mark A. Reid

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Can films about black characters, produced by white filmmakers, be considered "black films"? In answering this question, Mark Reid reassesses black film history, carefully distinguishing between films controlled by blacks and films that utilize black talent, but are controlled by whites. Previous black film criticism has "buried" the true black film industry, Reid says, by concentrating on films that are about, but not by, blacks. Reid's discussion of black independent films--defined as films that focus on the black community and that are written, directed, produced, and distributed by blacks--ranges from the earliest black involvement at the turn of the century up through the civil rights…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/23/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.02" long x 0.41" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Mark A. Reid is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He has written extensively on black cinema.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Early African-American Film Companies


Foster Photoplay Company's Black Comedies


Lincoln Motion Picture's Black Family Films


Oscar Micheaux and Black Action Films


The Decline of the Indies



African-American Comedy Film


Blackface Minstrelsy Processes of Production and Reception


Hybrid Minstrelsy and Black Employment as Comic Types


Hybrid Minstrel Film


Satiric Hybrid Minstrelsy


Satiric Hybrid Minstrel Film


Toward a Critical Theory of African-American Film



Family Film: Black Writers in Hollywood


Literary Forces Encouraging the Use of Black Writers


Take a Giant Step


Race, Sexuality, and a Black Matinee Idol


A Raisin in the Sun


Textual Dialogue in A Raisin in the Sun



Black Action Film


From Bitterness to Anger


Black Power and Urban Revolts


The Making of a Hero Called Sweetback


The Studio-Produced Black Action Film



Black Comedy on the Verge of a Genre Breakdown


She's Gotta Have It


School Daze


Do the Right Thing



Black Feminism and the Independent Film


Black Womanism as a Form of Resistance


Reception: Resistance, Accommodation, Assimilation


Black Womanist Film Praxis


The Womanist Film and the Black Professional



Male-Directed New Black Independent Cinema


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index


Index of Film Titles