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  • The Politics & Poetics of Black Film

    Nothing But a Man

    Edited by David C. Wall, Michael T. Martin ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    Edited by Michael T. Martin, David C. Wall, Marilyn Yaquinto ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Ivan Dixon's 1973 film, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, captures the intensity of social and political upheaval during a volatile period in American history. Based on Sam Greenlee's novel by the same name, the film is a searing portrayal of an American Black underclass brought to the brink of revolution. This series of critical essays situates the film in its social, political, and cinematic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Street to Screen

    Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep

    Edited by Michael T. Martin, David C. Wall ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular blaxploitation films of the period, it combines harsh images of the banality of everyday oppression with scenes of lyrical beauty, and depictions of stark realism with flights of comic fancy. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep is the ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploring Film through Bad Cinema

    by David C. Wall ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of “bad” cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts.Providing a wide-ranging discussion of film from multiple perspectives, including history, aesthetics, and criticism, this broad theoretical engagement illustrates the ways in which the registers of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • From Street to Screen

    Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep

    Edited by Michael T. Martin, David C. Wall ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular blaxploitation films of the period, it combines harsh images of the banality of everyday oppression with scenes of lyrical beauty, and depictions of stark realism with flights of comic fancy. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep is the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Politics and Poetics of Black Film

    Nothing But a Man

    Edited by David C. Wall, Michael T. Martin ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Film Blackness

    American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film

    by Michael Boyce Gillespie ...
    In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a representation of the black experience but as a visual negotiation between film as art and the discursivity of race. Gillespie challenges expectations that black film can or should represent the reality of black life or provide answers to social problems. ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Framing Blackness

    The African American Image in Film

    by Ed Guerrero ...
    Series series Culture And The Moving Image
    From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society. Written with the energy and conviction generated by the new black film wave, Framing Blackness traces an ongoing epic—African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks.These ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Black American Cinema

    Edited by Manthia Diawara ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    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.In this volume, the work of early Black filmmakers is given serious attention for the first ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Reading America

    Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature

    by Kristin L. Matthews ...
    Series series Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
    During the Cold War, the editor of Time magazine declared, “A good citizen is a good reader.” As postwar euphoria faded, a wide variety of Americans turned to reading to understand their place in the changing world. Yet, what did it mean to be a good reader? And how did reading make you a good citizen?In Reading America, Kristin L. Matthews puts into conversation a range of political, educational, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Dancing Down the Barricades

    Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era

    by Matthew Frye Jacobson ...
    A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr.Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV—Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Was the Cat in the Hat Black?

    The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

    by Philip Nel ...
    Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One of the places that racism hides-and thus perhaps the best place to oppose it-is books for young people. Was the Cat in the Hat Black? presents ... Read more

    $15.19 USD