Representing Blackness : issues in film and video / edited and with an introduction by Valerie Smith...
Representing Blackness : issues in film and video / edited and with an introduction by Valerie Smith...
Representing Blackness : issues in film and video / edited and with an introduction by Valerie Smith.
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Publisher
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.
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N791.4365203/6
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 240 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction / Valerie Smith -- Black Beginnings: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation / Donald Bogle -- Spectatorship and Capture in King Kong: The Guilty Look / James A. Snead -- "Race Movies" as Voices of the Black Bourgeoisie: The Scar of Shame / Thomas Cripps -- The Scar of Shame: Sk...
Publication information
Publisher
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
c1997.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
The essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independent cinema. This volume includes seminal essays on racial stereotypes, trenchant critiques of that disclosure, original essays on important directors such as Haile Gerima and...
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Full title
Representing Blackness : issues in film and video / edited and with an introduction by Valerie Smith.
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General note
Rutgers Departmenth of field series.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index.
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Date Copyright
c1997.
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N791.4365203/6
Record Identifier
74VMQDN6VWrA
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ISBN
0813523141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813523132 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813523133 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813523149 (pbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
791.4365203/6
MMS ID
991000353559702626
