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Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The march on Hollywood: Gone are the days and the integration picture
• Ghetto travelogue: The cool world, Harlem, and the new American cinema
• The concessions of Nat Turner: the instant demise of the Black prestige picture
• The battle of Cleveland: Uptight and the urban Black revolution film
• Black Hollywood meets new Hollywood: The landlord and the racial impasse film of 1970
• Conclusion: 1960s African American cinema and the birth of blaxploitation.

Author/Creator:

Sieving, Christopher

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Soul searching: Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the rise of blaxploitation [by Sieving, C.]

Related Series:

Wesleyan film

Subjects:

African Americans in motion pictures

African Americans in the motion picture industry

Motion pictures — United States — History — 20th century

1900-1999

Motion pictures

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Based on author's dissertation (doctoral) -- University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

x, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

PN1995.9.N4 S54 2011

ISBNs:

9780819571328 (cloth, alk. paper)
0819571326 (cloth, alk. paper)
9780819571335 (pbk., alk. paper)
0819571334 (pbk., alk. paper)
9780819571342 (e-book)
0819571342 (e-book)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2010044915

OCLC Numbers:

666220282