Ed Guerrero

Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film

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Produktbeschreibung

Arguing that the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society, this book traces an African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks. It also looks at the controversies surrounding role choices by stars like Sidney Poitier, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopie Goldberg.

Produktdetails

• Culture and the Moving Image
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 255
• Erscheinungstermin: November 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781566391269
• ISBN-10: 1566391261
• Artikelnr.: 22142022

Autorenporträt

Ed Guerrero, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware, lectures and publishes widely on black cinema and has worked on documentary film projects for PBS and Island Records.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. From Birth To Blaxploitation: Hollywood's Inscription of Slavery
2. Slaves, Monsters, and Others: Racial Fragment, Metaphor, and Allegory on
the Commercial Screen
3. The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation
4. Recuperation, Representation, and Resistance: Black Cinema through the
1980s
5. Black Film in the 1990s: The New Black Movie Boom and Its Portents
Notes
Bibliography
Index