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Author : Edward Mapp
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J : Scarecrow Press, 1972 [c1971]
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015007039772
Author : Monica White Ndounou
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813562575
In Hollywood, we hear, it’s all about the money. It’s a ready explanation for why so few black films get made—no crossover appeal, no promise of a big payoff. But what if the money itself is color-coded? What if the economics that governs film production is so skewed that no film by, about, or for people of color will ever look like a worthy investment unless it follows specific racial or gender patterns? This, Monica Ndounou shows us, is precisely the case. In a work as revealing about the culture of filmmaking as it is about the distorted economics of African American film, Ndounou clearly traces the insidious connections between history, content, and cash in black films. How does history come into it? Hollywood’s reliance on past performance as a measure of potential success virtually guarantees that historically underrepresented, underfunded, and undersold African American films devalue the future prospects of black films. So the cycle continues as it has for nearly a century. Behind the scenes, the numbers are far from neutral. Analyzing the onscreen narratives and off-screen circumstances behind nearly two thousand films featuring African Americans in leading and supporting roles, including such recent productions as Bamboozled, Beloved, and Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Ndounou exposes the cultural and racial constraints that limit not just the production but also the expression and creative freedom of black films. Her wide-ranging analysis reaches into questions of literature, language, speech and dialect, film images and narrative, acting, theater and film business practices, production history and financing, and organizational history. By uncovering the ideology behind profit-driven industry practices that reshape narratives by, about, and for people of color, this provocative work brings to light existing limitations—and possibilities for reworking stories and business practices in theater, literature, and film.
Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135925611
The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry is a completely revised and updated edition of Anthony Slide's The American Film Industry, originally published in 1986 and recipient of the American Library Association's Outstanding Reference Book award for that year. More than 200 new entries have been added, and all original entries have been updated; each entry is followed by a short bibliography. As its predecessor, the new dictionary is unique in that it is not a who's who of the industry, but rather a what's what: a dictionary of producing and releasing companies, technical innovations, industry terms, studios, genres, color systems, institutions and organizations, etc. More than 800 entries include everything from Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to Zoom Lens, from Astoria Studios to Zoetrope. Outstanding Reference Source - American Library Association
Author : Torriano Berry,Venise T. Berry
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015054169605
A plentifully illustrated guide to the most popular and socially significant movies made for, by, and about African Americans from 1900 to today. Also includes incisive interviews with Hollywood greats such as Ossie Davis and Ivan Dixon.
Author : Camille R. Michaels
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534560819
The whitewashing of roles in films and the lack of representation at awards shows such as the Oscars are only two of the career obstacles African American actors and filmmakers have historically faced. Although blackface is now taboo, racism is still prevalent in Hollywood. Readers explore the causes of the systemic oppression that has made it difficult for African Americans to break into the movie business. Through full-color photographs and primary sources, readers will learn how to become more thoughtful viewers of movies and television.
Author : Jim Pines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : African American women in motion pictures
ISBN : UCSC:32106018437993
Author : George William Jones
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015025283014
Alerted to the existence of a cache of old films in a Texas warehouse in 1983, Jones, a professor of cinema and video and founder-director of the Southwest Film/Video Archives, saved them from disintegration. The 22 rediscovered films were made by black producers, directors, and writers for exclusively black audiences from the 1920s to the early 1950s. They provide one of the best sources for knowledge of the black self-consciousness in America during those years. Director and actor Ossie Davis' foreword and Jones' overview of the history of black filmmaking discuss the "authenticity and awkwardness" of the films, compare them with Hollywood-made all-black-cast films of the 1930s, and explain their social significance. Brief biographies and filmographies of the pioneers of black filmmaking--Oscar Micheaux, Spencer Williams, William Alexander, and George Randol--are included as are film synopses and frame blowups. ISBN 0-929398-26-2: $29.95.
Author : Anne Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015031719324
Author : Daniel Bernardi,Michael Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1127 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313398407
This expansive three-volume set investigates racial representation in film, providing an authoritative cross-section of the most racially significant films, actors, directors, and movements in American cinematic history. Hollywood has always reflected current American cultural norms and ideas. As such, film provides a window into attitudes about race and ethnicity over the last century. This comprehensive set provides information on hundreds of films chosen based on scholarly consensus of their importance regarding the subject, examining aspects of race and ethnicity in American film through the historical context, themes, and people involved. This three-volume set highlights the most important films and artists of the era, identifying films, actors, or characterizations that were considered racist, were tremendously popular or hugely influential, attempted to be progressive, or some combination thereof. Readers will not only learn basic information about each subject but also be able to contextualize it culturally, historically, and in terms of its reception to understand what average moviegoers thought about the subject at the time of its popularity—and grasp how the subject is perceived now through the lens of history.
Author : James Monaco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015010255225
Author : John R. Dean,Jean-Paul Gabilliet
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037411538
Since the Second World War, Europe has undergone a continual invasion: wave after wave of American popular culture. The diffusion of American culture in Europe is both a European story about America and an American story about Europe. This work examines this cross-cultural phenomenon from the European viewpoint. Nearly two dozen European experts in their respective fields offer an invigorating, engaging, and open-minded examination of America as perceived with the acute insight of the interested European outsider—a fruitful tradition that stretches back to Lafayette, de Tocqueville, and Goethe, to name three. Of interest to scholars, students, and general readers alike. The book's focus is both sensuous and intellectual: how America is seen (The Image); heard (Popular Music); perused (The Written Word); digested (Food); learned from its common ways (Social Customs); perceived by minorities (Ethnic Cultures); and taken as an instrument of change (Americanization). It is the first book of its kind published in the United States. It is rich with selected, up-to-date critical bibliographies in areas for which very little information is otherwise available. In sum: a cogent, cross-cultural analysis of how U.S. popular culture exposes both European dreams of well-being and nightmares of discontent. These are insights which deserve to be savored.
Author : Ryan Jay Friedman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813550480
In 1929 and 1930, during the Hollywood studios' conversion to synchronized-sound film production, white-controlled trade magazines and African American newspapers celebrated a "vogue" for "Negro films." "Hollywood's African American Films" argues that the movie business turned to black musical performance to both resolve technological and aesthetic problems introduced by the medium of "talking pictures" and, at the same time, to appeal to the white "Broadway" audience that patronized their most lucrative first-run theaters. Capitalizing on highbrow associations with white "slumming" in African American cabarets and on the cultural linkage between popular black musical styles and "natural" acoustics, studios produced a series of African American-cast and white-cast films featuring African American sequences. Ryan Jay Friedman asserts that these transitional films reflect contradictions within prevailing racial ideologies--arising most clearly in the movies' treatment of African American characters' decisions to migrate. Regardless of how the films represent these choices, they all prompt elaborate visual and narrative structures of containment that tend to highlight rather than suppress historical tensions surrounding African American social mobility, Jim Crow codes, and white exploitation of black labor.
Author : Amanda Ann Klein
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292726802
A series of movies that share images, characters, settings, plots, or themes, film cycles have been an industrial strategy since the beginning of cinema. While some have viewed them as "subgenres," mini-genres, or nascent film genres, Amanda Ann Klein argues that film cycles are an entity in their own right and a subject worthy of their own study. She posits that film cycles retain the marks of their historical, economic, and generic contexts and therefore can reveal much about the state of contemporary politics, prevalent social ideologies, aesthetic trends, popular desires, and anxieties. American Film Cycles presents a series of case studies of successful film cycles, including the melodramatic gangster films of the 1920s, the 1930s Dead End Kids cycle, the 1950s juvenile delinquent teenpic cycle, and the 1990s ghetto action cycle. Klein situates these films in several historical trajectories—the Progressive movement of the 1910s and 1920s, the beginnings of America's involvement in World War II, the "birth" of the teenager in the 1950s, and the drug and gangbanger crises of the early 1990s. She shows how filmmakers, audiences, film reviewers, advertisements, and cultural discourses interact with and have an impact on the film texts. Her findings illustrate the utility of the film cycle in broadening our understanding of established film genres, articulating and building upon beliefs about contemporary social problems, shaping and disseminating deviant subcultures, and exploiting and reflecting upon racial and political upheaval.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. General Subcommittee on Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCSD:31822006681670
Author : Cynthia Lucia,Roy Grundmann,Art Simon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118475126
From the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic history during the second half of the twentieth-century through the present day. Considers essential subjects that have shaped the American film industry—from the impact of television and CGI to the rise of independent and underground film; from the impact of the civil rights, feminist and LGBT movements to that of 9/11. Features a student-friendly structure dividing coverage into the periods 1960-1975, 1976-1990, and 1991 to the present day, each of which opens with an historical overview Brings together a rich and varied selection of contributions by established film scholars, combining broad historical, social, and political contexts with detailed analysis of individual films, including Midnight Cowboy, Nashville, Cat Ballou, Chicago, Back to the Future, Killer of Sheep, Daughters of the Dust, Nothing But a Man, Ali, Easy Rider, The Conversation, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Longtime Companion, The Matrix, The War Tapes, the Batman films, and selected avant-garde and documentary films, among many others. Additional online resources, such as sample syllabi, which include suggested readings and filmographies, for both general and specialized courses, will be available online. May be used alongside American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 to provide an authoritative study of American cinema from its earliest days through the new millennium
