Black American CinemaManthia Diawara Routledge, 2012 M10 2 - 336 pages This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American filmmakers have played a remarkable role in the development of the American film, both independent and mainstream. |
Contents
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Twoness in the Style of Oscar Micheaux | 26 |
Race Melodrama and Oscar Micheaux | 49 |
The Story Continues | 71 |
The Case | 80 |
Is Car Wash a Black Musical? | 93 |
The Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers | 107 |
Daughters of the Dust | 118 |
Looking for Modernism | 200 |
Black Spectatorship | 211 |
Black Film Exhibition in Austin Texas | 221 |
Hollywoods Biracial | 237 |
Towards Normalizing | 247 |
Lost | 257 |
The Black Woman as Audience | 272 |
Black Female Spectators | 288 |
Spike Lee at the Movies | 145 |
Spike Lee and the Commerce of Culture | 154 |
The Ironies of PalaceSubaltern Discourse | 177 |
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List of Contributors | 311 |