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Soul searching [electronic resource] : Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation / Christopher Sieving.

By: Sieving, Christopher.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Wesleyan film. Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2011Description: x, 265 p. : ill.Subject(s): African Americans in motion pictures | African Americans in the motion picture industry | Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 791.43/652996073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction -- March on Hollywood: gone are the days and the integration picture -- Ghetto travelogue: the cool world, Harlem, and the new American cinema -- Concessions of Nat Turner: the instant demise of the Black prestige picture -- 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.
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Based on author's dissertation (doctoral) -- University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- March on Hollywood: gone are the days and the integration picture -- Ghetto travelogue: the cool world, Harlem, and the new American cinema -- Concessions of Nat Turner: the instant demise of the Black prestige picture -- 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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.