Post-soul black cinema : discontinuities, innovations, and breakpoints, 1970-1995 / / William R. Grant, IV

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450986203321
• Autore: Grant W. R. <1967, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-135-93704-4; 1-280-17120-0; 0-203-64191-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (107 p.)
• Collana: Studies in African American history and culture
• Disciplina: 791.43/652996073
• Soggetti: African Americans in motion pictures; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-89) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Rebirth; The Stereotype; Literature Review; Chapter Descriptions; RACE AND REPRESENTATION IN THE CLASSICAL STYLE; The Classical Hollywood Cinema; Early Images of Blacks in American Cinema; THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BLAXPLOITATION; We Shall Overcome; A Star Is Dying: Sidney Poitier and the Death of Uncle Tom; The Big Break and a Hero Named Sweetback; The Great Flood; Cashing In and Selling Out; I See Death around the Corner; DO THE RIGHT THING REVISITEDThe Check Is in the Mail; Pre-Production, Film Trade Unions, and Doing the Right Thing; Do the Right Thing Meets the Press; CHECK THE GATE: BLACK CINEMA AT THE CROSSROADS; Does We Still Have to Shuffle?; Re-Thinking a Black Film Aesthetic; APPENDIX A; Text of a Letter Sent to the Motion Picture Association of America and Announced at a Press Conference in Los Angeles, March 22, 1971; APPENDIX B; Brief Plot Summary of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song; APPENDIX C; Brief Plot Summary of Do The Right Thing; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF FILM TITLES; SUBJECT INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: This work examines and analyzes how the cinematic image of African Americans became a fixed image with strict rules of depiction both written and unwritten. And, how those very limited and under-informed images would not and could not be challenged or transformed until the power relations in the American film industry began to change and afforded blacks the opportunity at the very least to tell stories from an informed position.