The A To Z Of African American Cinema

Author : S. Torriano Berry,Venise T. Berry
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810870345

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The A to Z of African American Cinema by S. Torriano Berry,Venise T. Berry Pdf

On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded-and thousands of fans witnessed-former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries' reluctant return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson, a black man. After 14 grueling rounds, Johnson knocked out Jeffries and for the first time in history, there was a black heavyweight champion of the world. At least 10 people lost their lives because of Johnson's victory and hundreds more were injured due to white retaliation and wild celebrations in the streets. Public screenings received instantaneous protests and hundreds of cities barred the film from being shown. Congress even passed a law making it a federal offense to transport moving pictures of prizefights across state lines, and thus the most powerful portrayal of a black man ever recorded on film was made virtually invisible. This is but one of the hundreds of films covered in The A to Z of African American Cinema, which includes everything from The Birth of a Nation to Crash. In addition to the films, brief biographies of African American actors and actresses such as Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Halle Berry, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg, Denzel Washington, and Jamie Foxx can be found in this reference. Through a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, black-&-white photos, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards, film credits, and terminology, this book provides a better understanding of the role African Americans played in film history.

Author : Manthia Diawara
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0415903971

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Black American Cinema by Manthia Diawara Pdf

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Author : S. Torriano Berry,Venise T. Berry
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810864649

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Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema by S. Torriano Berry,Venise T. Berry Pdf

Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema includes everything from The Birth of a Nation to Crash. In addition to the films, brief biographies of African American actors and actresses such as Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Halle Berry, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg, Denzel Washington, and Jamie Foxx can be found in this reference. Through a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, black-&-white photos, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards, film credits, and terminology, this book provides a better understanding of the role African Americans played in film history.

Author : S. Torriano Berry,Venise T. Berry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442247024

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Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema by S. Torriano Berry,Venise T. Berry Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about African American cinema.

Author : Anthony D. Hill,Douglas Q. Barnett
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810870614

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The A to Z of African American Theater by Anthony D. Hill,Douglas Q. Barnett Pdf

African American Theater is a vibrant and unique entity enriched by ancient Egyptian rituals, West African folklore, and European theatrical practices. A continuum of African folk traditions, it combines storytelling, mythology, rituals, music, song, and dance with ancestor worship from ancient times to the present. It afforded black artists a cultural gold mine to celebrate what it was like to be an African American in The New World. The A to Z of African American Theater celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States, identifying representative African American theater-producing organizations and chronicling their contributions to the field from its birth in 1816 to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, directors, playwrights, plays, theater producing organizations, themes, locations, and theater movements and awards.

Author : Torriano Berry,Venise T. Berry
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015054169605

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The 50 Most Influential Black Films by Torriano Berry,Venise T. Berry Pdf

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 : Kathleen Fearn-Banks
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810863484

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The A to Z of African-American Television by Kathleen Fearn-Banks Pdf

From Amos 'n' Andy to The Jeffersons to Family Matters to Chappelle's Show, this volume covers it all with entries on all different genres_animation, documentaries, sitcoms, sports, talk shows, and variety shows_and performers such as Muhammad Ali, Louis Armstrong, Bill Cosby, and Oprah Winfrey. Additionally, information can be found on general issues, ranging from African American audiences and stereotypes through the related networks and organizations. This book has hundreds of cross-referenced entries, from A to Z, in the dictionary and a list of acronyms with their corresponding definitions. The extensive chronology shows who did what and when and the introduction traces the often difficult circumstances African American performers faced compared to the more satisfactory present situation. Finally, the bibliography is useful to those readers who want to know more about specific topics or persons.

Author : Manthia Diawara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African Americans in motion pictures
ISBN : 0415974550

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Black American Cinema Reconsidered by Manthia Diawara Pdf

Contemporary Black Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history and criticism, the contributing authors deftly connect interdisciplinary perspectives from American studies, cinema studies, cultural studies, political science, media studies, and Queer theory. This multidisciplinary methodology expands the discursive and interpretive registers of film analysis. From Paul Robeson’s and Sidney Poitier’s star vehicles to Lee Daniels’ directorial forays, these essays include but surpass discussions of urban realism in New Black Cinema. These entries address the career legacies of film stars, examine various iterations of Blaxploitation-animation, question the comedic politics of "fat suit" films, and celebrate the innovation of avant-garde and experimental cinema.

Author : David J. Leonard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313018015

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Screens Fade to Black by David J. Leonard Pdf

The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a single evening in 2002 seemed to mark a turning point for African Americans in cinema. Certainly it was hyped as such by the media, eager to overlook the nuances of this sudden embrace. In this new study, author David Leonard uses this event as a jumping-off point from which to discuss the current state of African-American cinema and the various genres that currently compose it. Looking at such recent films as Love and Basketball, Antwone Fisher, Training Day, and the two Barbershop films—all of which were directed by black artists, and most of which starred and were written by blacks as well—Leonard examines the issues of representation and opportunity in contemporary cinema. In many cases, these films-which walk a line between confronting racial stereotypes and trafficking in them-made a great deal of money while hardly playing to white audiences at all. By examining the ways in which they address the American Dream, racial progress, racial difference, blackness, whiteness, class, capitalism and a host of other issues, Leonard shows that while certainly there are differences between the grotesque images of years past and those that define today's era, the consistency of images across genre and time reflects the lasting power of racism, as well as the black community's response to it.

Author : Barbara Tepa Lupack
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1580461034

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Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema by Barbara Tepa Lupack Pdf

By contrast, in the works of black writers from Oscar Micheaux to Toni Morrison, the black experience has been more fully, more accurately, and usually more sympathetically realized; and from the early days of film, select filmmakers have looked to that literature as the basis for their productions.".

Author : Charles Musser,Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1028638677

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Pioneers of African-American Cinema by Charles Musser,Jacqueline Najuma Stewart Pdf

Author : Jeremy Geltzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692405348

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Race Films: 50 Years of African American Cinema by Jeremy Geltzer Pdf

Race Films: 50 Years of African American Cinema introduces readers to the fascinating and often overlooked talents that created movies that were independent of Hollywood and tailored to the tastes of African American audiences. From the earliest days to the Golden Age of silent film, the journey of black filmmakers is chronicled with recognizable figures as well as great performers that have been obscured by the sands of time. Rediscover the forgotten world of Race Films.

Author : André Seewood
Publisher : Xlibris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African Americans in motion pictures
ISBN : 1436321794

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Slave Cinema by André Seewood Pdf

Using a rich compendium of evidence and a provocative perspective, the second edition of SLAVE CINEMA takes a thorough and uncompromising look at African-American cinema, African-American social identity and the American film industry. This book addresses the specific artistic, ideological and moral challenges that face every African-American filmmaker. It is broken into three main parts: Slave Cinema part 1: The Crisis of African-American Independent Cinema. Slave Cinema part 2: Five Assumptions of Race that Shackle African-Americans in Film. Slave Cinema part 3: Five Errors that Constrict African-American Cinematic Style. This second edition contains a new chapter on RACE TRAITORS: White Filmmakers who make Black Films which discusses several groundbreaking films made by whites about blacks that have been overlooked or dismissed by many African-American critics and scholars. Written by multiple award winning independent writer and filmmaker Andre Seewood. SLAVE CINEMA is his second published non-fiction work. He is also the author of SCREENWRITING IN TO FILM: Forgotten Methods & New Possibilities.

Author : Paula Massood
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781592130030

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Black City Cinema by Paula Massood Pdf

In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture.Massood probes into the relationship of place and time, showing how urban settings became an intrinsic element of African American film as Black people became more firmly rooted in urban spaces and more visible as historical and political subjects. Illuminating the intersections of film, history, politics, and urban discourse, she considers the chief genres of African American and Hollywood narrative film: the black cast musicals of the 1920s and the "race" films of the early sound era to blaxploitation and hood films, as well as the work of Spike Lee toward the end of the century. As it examines such a wide range of films over much of the twentieth century, this book offers a unique map of Black representations in film.

Author : Manthia Diawara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135216733

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Black American Cinema by Manthia Diawara Pdf

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. Contributors: Houston Baker, Jr., Toni Cade Bambara, Amiri Baraka, Jacquie Bobo, Richard Dyer, Jane Gaines, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ron Green, Ed Guerrero, bell hooks, Phyllis Klotman, Ntongele Masilela, Clyde Taylor, and Michele Wallace.