LEADER 03455oam 2200613I 450 001 9910450986203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-135-93704-4 010 $a1-280-17120-0 010 $a0-203-64191-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203641910 035 $a(CKB)1000000000252806 035 $a(EBL)200840 035 $a(OCoLC)61363549 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000225016 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11234582 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000225016 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10229518 035 $a(PQKB)11332700 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC200840 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL200840 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10162907 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL17120 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000252806 100 $a20180331d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPost-soul black cinema $ediscontinuities, innovations, and breakpoints, 1970-1995 /$fWilliam R. Grant, IV 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (107 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in African American history and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-65101-8 311 $a0-415-94768-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 87-89) and indexes. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aDO 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 330 $aThis work examines and analyzes how the cinematic image of African Americans became a fixed image with strict rules of depiction both written and unwritten. And, how those very limited and under-informed images would not and could not be challenged or transformed until the power relations in the American film industry began to change and afforded blacks the opportunity at the very least to tell stories from an informed position. 410 0$aStudies in African American history and culture. 606 $aAfrican Americans in motion pictures 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43/652996073 700 $aGrant$b W. R.$f1967,$0987006 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450986203321 996 $aPost-soul black cinema$92255541 997 $aUNINA