Sieving, Christopher.

Soul searching Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation / [electronic resource] : Christopher Sieving. - Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2011. - x, 265 p. : ill. - Wesleyan film .

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.


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African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.N4 / S54 2011eb

791.43/652996073