Black Film as Genre
Author | : Thomas Cripps |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : African Americans in motion pictures |
ISBN | : 9780253375025 |
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Author | : Thomas Cripps |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : African Americans in motion pictures |
ISBN | : 9780253375025 |
Author | : Mark A. Reid |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1993-02-23 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780520912847 |
Can films about black characters, produced by white filmmakers, be considered "black films"? In answering this question, Mark Reid reassesses black film history, carefully distinguishing between films controlled by blacks and films that utilize black talent, but are controlled by whites. Previous black film criticism has "buried" the true black film industry, Reid says, by concentrating on films that are about, but not by, blacks. Reid's discussion of black independent films—defined as films that focus on the black community and that are written, directed, produced, and distributed by blacks—ranges from the earliest black involvement at the turn of the century up through the civil rights movement of the Sixties and the recent resurgence of feminism in black cultural production. His critical assessment of work by some black filmmakers such as Spike Lee notes how these films avoid dramatizations of sexism, homophobia, and classism within the black community. In the area of black commercial film controlled by whites, Reid considers three genres: African-American comedy, black family film, and black action film. He points out that even when these films use black writers and directors, a black perspective rarely surfaces. Reid's innovative critical approach, which transcends the "black-image" language of earlier studies—and at the same time redefines black film—makes an important contribution to film history. Certain to attract film scholars, this work will also appeal to anyone interested in African-American and Women's Studies.
Author | : Mark A. Reid |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780742526426 |
Black Lenses, Black Voices is a provocative look at films directed and written_and sometimes produced_by African Americans, as well as black-oriented films whose directors or screenwriters are not black. Mark Reid shows how certain films dramatize the contemporary African American community as a politically and economically diverse group, vastly different from film representations of the 1960s. Taking us through the development of African American independent filmmaking before and after World War II, he then illustrates the unique nature of African American family, action, horror, female-centered, and independent films, such as Eve's Bayou, Jungle Fever, Shaft, Souls of Sin, Bones, Waiting to Exhale, Monster's Ball, Sankofa, and many more.
Author | : Barry Langford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
This book provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked.
Author | : Gladstone Lloyd Yearwood |
Publisher | : Africa Research and Publications |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
The book examines the way black filmmakers use expressive forms and systems of signification that reflect the cultural and historical priorities of the black experience. It delineates how the African-American expressive tradition utilizes its own vernacular space and time of story telling in the cinema and how black film narration draws on the formal structures of black experience to organize story material."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Lisa Doris Alexander |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-08-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0700628401 |
If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a Slave and Moonlight to Get Out, Black Panther, and BlackkKlansman tells us anything, it might be that there's no such thing as "black film" per se. This book is especially timely, then, in expanding our idea of what black films are and, going back to the 1960s, showing us new and interesting ways to understand them. When critics and scholars write about films from the Blaxploitation movement—such as Cotton Comes to Harlem, Shaft, Superfly, and Cleopatra Jones—they emphasize their importance as films made for black audiences. Consequently, Lisa Doris Alexander points out, a film like the highly popular, Oscar-nominated Blazing Saddles—costarring and co-written by Richard Pryor—is generally left out of the discussion because it doesn't fit the profile of what a black film of the period should be. This is the kind of categorical thinking that Alexander seeks to broaden, looking at films from the 60s to the present day in the context of their time. Applying insights from black feminist thought and critical race theory to one film per decade, she analyzes what each can tell us about the status of black people and race relations in the United States at the time of its release. By teasing out the importance of certain films excluded from the black film canon, Alexander hopes to expand that canon to include films typically relegated to the category of popular entertainment—and to show how these offer more nuanced representations of black characters even as they confront, negate, or parody the controlling images that have defined black filmic characters for decades.
Author | : Novotny Lawrence |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2007-12-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135900361 |
This book examines a number of blaxploitation films – including Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Blacula (1972), and The Mack (1973) – and illustrates the manner in which 'blaxploitation' came to be understood as a separate genre.
Author | : Ed Guerrero |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2012-06-20 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1439904138 |
A challenge to Hollywood's one-dimensional images of African Americans.
Author | : Victor H. Green |
Publisher | : Colchis Books |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Author | : Mark A. Reid |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2019-01-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0814345506 |
The interdisciplinary quality of the anthology makes it approachable to students and scholars of fields ranging from film to culture to African American studies alike.