The 50 Most Influential Black Films

The 50 Most Influential Black Films
Author: Torriano Berry
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780806521336

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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.

Entertainment Weekly A Celebration of Black Film

Entertainment Weekly A Celebration of Black Film
Author: Entertainment Weekly
Publisher: Time Home Entertainment
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2021-02-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1547856653

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Entertainment Weekly celebrates the rich legacy of Black film and filmmakers in more than 100 years of movies. From Oscar Micheaux, a self-made auteur who in 1919 directed the first feature-length movie with an all-Black cast, to Ava Duvernay, Jordan Peele, Regina King and more new artists who are defining the future of Black movie-making. From first African-American Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel to legends like Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier to the stars of today: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Michael B. Jordan, Mahershala Ali, Tiffany Haddish and many more. Includes interviews with Spike Lee, Radha Black, Peter Ramsey (director Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse) and others. A must for all movie lovers.

A Celebration of Black Film

A Celebration of Black Film
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2021
Genre: African American motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN: 9781547856633

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Screens Fade to Black

Screens Fade to Black
Author: David J. Leonard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2006-06-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0313018014

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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.

Celebration of Black Cinema V

Celebration of Black Cinema V
Author: Celebration of Black Cinema, Inc
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1988
Genre: Blacks
ISBN:

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Program for the 5th Celebration of Black Cinema film festival in Boston. Includes listing of films shown during the festival, with summaries.

Why We Make Movies

Why We Make Movies
Author: George Alexander
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0307419592

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A sparkling collection of interviews with African American directors and producers. Bringing together more than thirty candid conversations with filmmakers and producers such as Spike Lee, Gordon Parks, Julie Dash, Charles Burnett, and Robert Townsend, Why We Make Movies delivers a cultural celebration with the tips of a film-school master class. With journalist George Alexander, these revolutionary men and women discuss not only how they got their big breaks, but more importantly, they explore the creative process and what making movies means to them. Why We Make Movies also addresses the business of Hollywood and its turning tide, in a nation where African Americans comprise a sizable portion of the film-going public and go to the movies more frequently than whites. In addition, Alexander’s cast of directors and producers considers the lead roles they now play in everything from documentaries and films for television to broad-based blockbusters (in fact, the highest-grossing film in Miramax history was Scary Movie, directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans). For film buffs and aspiring filmmakers alike, Why We Make Movies puts a long-overdue spotlight on one of the most exciting and cutting-edge segments of today’s silver screen. INTERVIEWS INCLUDE: MELVIN VAN PEEBLES • MICHAEL SCHULTZ • CHARLES BURNETT • SPIKE LEE • ROBERT TOWNSEND • FRED WILLIAMSON • ERNEST DICKERSON • KEENEN IVORY WAYANS • ANTOINE FUQUA • BILL DUKE • FORREST WHITAKER • JULIE DASH • KASI LEMMONS • GINA PRINC-BLYTHEWOOD • JOHN SINGLETON • GEORGE TILLMAN Jr. • REGINALD HUDLIN • WARRINGTON HUDLIN • MALCOLM LEE • EUZHAN PALCY • DOUG McHENRY • DEBRA MARTIN CHASE • St. CLAIR BOURNE • STANLEY NELSON • WILLIAM GREAVES • KATHE SANDLER • CAMILLE BILLOPS • HAILE GERIMA • GORDON PARKS

L.A. Rebellion

L.A. Rebellion
Author: Allyson Field
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2015-11-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520284682

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"L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s. The group--including Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Billy Woodberry, Jamaa Fanaka, and Zeinabu irene Davis--shared a desire to create alternatives to the dominant modes of narrative, style, and practice in American cinema, works that reflected the full complexity of Black experiences. This landmark collection of essays and oral histories examines the creative output of the L.A. Rebellion, contextualizing the group's film practices and offering sustained analyses of the wide range of works, with particular attention to newly discovered films and lesser-known filmmakers. Based on extensive archival work and preservation, this collection includes a complete filmography of the movement, over 100 illustrations (most of which are previously unpublished), and a bibliography of primary and secondary materials. This is an indispensable sourcebook for scholars and enthusiasts, establishing the key role played by the L.A. Rebellion within the histories of cinema, Black visual culture, and postwar art in Los Angeles"--Provided by publisher.

A Separate Cinema

A Separate Cinema
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1998
Genre: African Americans in motion pictures
ISBN:

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Separate Cinema

Separate Cinema
Author: John Kisch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781909526068

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A complete history of first 100 years of black cast movie posters. Stunning images. From world's leading archive.

Blackframes

Blackframes
Author: Mbye B. Cham
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1988
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

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This collection of eight original essays by noted scholars, critics, and practitioners of independent Black cinema offers a rare global and systematic examination of what is unique and what is common to the making of films in English-speaking Africa, in the United States, and in Britain.