03455oam 2200613I 450 991045098620332120200520144314.01-135-93704-41-280-17120-00-203-64191-410.4324/9780203641910 (CKB)1000000000252806(EBL)200840(OCoLC)61363549(SSID)ssj0000225016(PQKBManifestationID)11234582(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000225016(PQKBWorkID)10229518(PQKB)11332700(MiAaPQ)EBC200840(Au-PeEL)EBL200840(CaPaEBR)ebr10162907(CaONFJC)MIL17120(EXLCZ)99100000000025280620180331d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPost-soul black cinema discontinuities, innovations, and breakpoints, 1970-1995 /William R. Grant, IVNew York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (107 p.)Studies in African American history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-65101-8 0-415-94768-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-89) and indexes.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 CornerDO 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 INDEXThis 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.Studies in African American history and culture.African Americans in motion picturesElectronic books.African Americans in motion pictures.791.43/652996073Grant W. R.1967,987006MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450986203321Post-soul black cinema2255541UNINA