Richard E. Norman and race filmmaking / / Barbara Tepa Lupack ; foreword by Michael T. Martin
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| Autore: |
Lupack Barbara Tepa
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| Titolo: |
Richard E. Norman and race filmmaking / / Barbara Tepa Lupack ; foreword by Michael T. Martin
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2014] |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/0233/092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Race films |
| African Americans in motion pictures | |
| Altri autori: |
MartinMichael T
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Foreword by Michael T. Martin -- Introduction: new visions of opportunity -- Race matters: the evolution of race filmmaking -- "Have you talent?": Norman's early career -- "Not a white man in the cast": Norman's early race films -- "Taking two hides from the ox": The bull-dogger and The crimson skull -- "A risky experiment": Zircon and regeneration -- "You know we have the goods": The flying ace and Black gold -- "It takes a darn good one to stick": Norman's later career -- Afterword -- Appendix 1: shooting script: The green eyed monster -- Appendix 2: shooting script (fragment) and scenario: The bull-dogger -- Appendix 3: shooting script: The crimson skull. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In the early 1900's, so-called race filmmakers set out to produce black-oriented pictures to counteract the racist caricatures that had dominated cinema from its inception. Richard E. Norman, a southern-born white filmmaker, was one such pioneer. From humble beginnings as a roving ""home talent"" filmmaker, recreating photo plays that starred local citizens, Norman would go on to produce high-quality feature-length race pictures. Together with his better-known contemporaries Oscar Micheaux and Noble and George Johnson, Richard E. Norman helped to define early race film making. Making use of |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Richard E. Norman and race filmmaking |
| ISBN: | 0-253-01056-X |
| 0-253-01072-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825663303321 |
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